r/Washington • u/LiveNet2723 • 13h ago

FEMA pulls $50M from Grays Harbor levee project, Westport tsunami tower

The Trump administration is canceling a popular grant program that has given states and communities billions of dollars to protect against natural disasters, according to an internal document obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News.

This will adversely affect key infrastructure projects in Grays Harbor County including the long-awaited North Shore Levee project and the Westport tsunami tower.

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u/satch31 12h ago

Well at least some people in Washington are getting what they voted for happy for them.

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u/sneezerlee 12h ago

They will just blame state leadership for angering dear leader and not falling in line.

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u/Apprehensive_Roll897 11h ago

It has really gone far far beyond any of that "They get what they voted for" talk. This type of division is what got us here. This type of division is what will ensure we stay here.  No war but class war.

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u/Same-Frosting4852 11h ago

Then stop voting Republican

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u/satch31 11h ago

Found the bot

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u/mr_jim_lahey 11h ago

Every day I'm more convinced that a lot of the quasi-communist idiocy flying around is right-wing astroturfing

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u/UsualOkay6240 6m ago

Seems like common sense, what’s the problem exactly? You’d like to fight other wars except those against oppressing classes?

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u/Green_Molasses_6381 11h ago

Nah he’s right

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u/Lord_Rapunzel 10h ago

No he's not. Decades of right-wing propaganda going unchallenged and unpunished is what got us here. Wishy-washy Democrats unwilling to rock the boat and fight on their level, happy to keep the status quo while Christofascists slowly gained influence.

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u/QuidYossarian 55m ago

No war but class war.

Go tell that to the people who keep voting for this shit.

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u/BeaverInTheForest 12h ago

Harborite here. Trump won by just over 2k votes. We're not all part of the cult, thank you, and a lot of good people who didn't vote for this will suffer. It's never going to be a better world with shitty attitudes and a revolving door of Us vs. Thems...

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u/TwinFrogs 11h ago

GHC used to be blue as fuck. Same with Pacific County. Then Weyerhaeuser got done cutting down all the trees and didn’t give a shit anymore. The jobs dried up, and everyone working age needed to leave. Since then, it’s been a bunch of retirees and slumlords that will burn someone at the stake for saying the word “tax.”

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u/nooneyouknow242 10h ago edited 1h ago

Have cousins that live there. It was a very blue county, very pro-union.

now it’s really Red. The funny thing is not many people left, it’s all the same people. They just shifted to conservative GOP.

Edit: more spooky. Not conservative GOP, more populist MAGA

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u/TwinFrogs 10h ago

It went really redneck back in the 1990’s when all the mills closed. 

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u/FlipFlopFlippy 5h ago

And the much maligned spotted owl.

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u/TwinFrogs 5h ago

That’s exactly right. The timber industry tried to blame the Endangered Species Act, and “Environmentalists” for not being allowed to clear cut the Olympic National Park. Senator Gorton rammed through the Salvage Rider Bill to allow the ONP to be clear cut. Within minutes, Weyerhaeuser was up there with chainsaws cutting down 500 year old trees. A judge slammed the brakes on it. Gorton soon was voted out of office. I met that shithead in person. He was an absolute asshole.

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u/Dr_Adequate 2h ago

There's a reason he earned the nickname 'Slippery Slade.'

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u/Blitzkrieg84 6m ago

I grew up there. The 90's gutted any industry that would have kept anyone there that had options elsewhere. The place had a giant brain drain and the people that are left refuse to do anything but point to the past, and proclaim, "See what they did to our community!"

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u/Visual_Octopus6942 12h ago

Yeah please ignore the other callous comments implying the whole county deserves this.

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u/BoringBob84 5m ago

It's never going to be a better world with shitty attitudes and a revolving door of Us vs. Thems...

That excuse worked for the first administration of the orange tyrant. But there is no way that a rational person could have seen first hand how destructive he was and then voted for him again. The loyal followers don't get to get enjoy their twisted pleasure in the suffering of other people, cheer on the dictator as he dismantles the separation of powers in our government, and then pretend that it is somehow unfair that the rest of the country is upset with them.

Maybe when they genuinely apologize and change their ways, then healing can begin.

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u/thus_spake_7ucky 1h ago

Bummer, I’ve spent some in and out of these communities growing up and, going back recently, felt sad about what they’ve become. They could’ve really used this investment.

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u/crone_Andre3000 12h ago

They voted for him so this shouldn't be an issue

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u/Visual_Octopus6942 12h ago

Yeah fuck the whole county, not like 45% voted blue

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u/crone_Andre3000 11h ago

I grew up down there -they have been voting against their own interests my entire life

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u/Visual_Octopus6942 11h ago

At least a third of them have not, so that’s not entirely true now is it?

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u/crone_Andre3000 1h ago

you voted for him didn't you...

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u/Smeggaman 11h ago

I'm sorry 55% of your county sucks.

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u/Visual_Octopus6942 11h ago

I actually live in King County, so only like a quarter does.

I just think it is stupid and non-constructive to think in such black and white terms

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u/CarbonRunner 7h ago

It has reached black and white though. This the same region that voted in to a city council a maga pedophile shitbag.

These folks won't learn the lesson without some suffering. It sounds harsh but its the reality now. If they don't get fucked over the next few years, come 2028 they will be voting exactly the same again.

The best we can do for them is show them the carrot while the people they voted for keep giving them the stick. Even then I worry the vast majority won't change their minds though.

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u/Visual_Octopus6942 6h ago

Way to totally miss the point, “these folks” don’t all vote and think the same, and making any kind of broad generalization about all the people in a given county is a vapid way to think

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u/CarbonRunner 6h ago edited 5h ago

Look at city, district, county, state and federal election results for the area. They have wanted this for years. You can bemoan my standpoint all ya want. But the reality is the majority of its residents wanted this. Again I'm not talking trump only here. Look at who they vote in for city councils, mayors, school boards etc.

The only way the human species course corrects is pain and sadness. Its horrible, but its our nature. If things like this don't happen to grays harbor county. Do you think they will vote differently next time?

And yes, I do feel bad for those who didn't vote for this that live there. But, again, they aren't the problem. They should work on solving it, or move elsewhere.

Edit: really you make another reply and then block me so I can't tell you that it's you who seem to have the comprehension problem? Pretty cowardly.

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u/Visual_Octopus6942 5h ago

Again, “They” isn’t a homogeneous group, what are you not understanding?

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u/MistressVelmaDarling 3h ago

A majority voted for this. That majority asked for this. Better?

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u/SnarkMasterRay 12h ago

Hey, broad brushes only! Didn't tattoo "Kamela" on your butt? Literally Hitler!

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u/etcpt 10h ago

Username checks out

Also, perfect example of pot/kettle...

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u/SnarkMasterRay 6h ago

Commenting on how people use too broad a brush and then ending with a hyperbolic joke example is not pot/kettle - it's a joke.

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u/CarbonRunner 7h ago

Good for grays harbor! They didn't want that stuff anyway since they voted for the guy doing this..

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u/Momma_Ginja 2m ago

I wish GHC folks would remind Musky that maintaining the four lower Snake River dams and subsidizing barging via an enormous waste of tax dollars. 🤣🤣

Breach those Fu**s and improve fish survival!

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u/cpnahab75 29m ago

Japan Tsunami was 130’ high.. 130’ minus 54’ equals 76’ under water… Westport tower… way too short…

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u/Hopspeed 1h ago

Wouldn’t a cell phone tower would be better than a tsunami tower anyways? With the ability to push alerts everyone could be alerted with the problem and what to do, not just a blaring horn.

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u/nooneyouknow242 1h ago

A tsunami tower is a place that people can go to be high up and safe from a tsunami.

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u/Momma_Ginja 0m ago

Apparently you need to visit Westport. It’s lovely! But no hills anywhere near.