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It should be hard to imagine opposition, politically or publicly, against making the federal government — and states, for that matter — better prepared for extreme weather disasters. The destruction of Hurricane Ian alone seems an obvious example, yet again, of just how severe the wreckage can be. Add the ongoing glut of floods, fires, tornadoes, heat waves, droughts and other destructive events, and the question might be why haven’t we done it yet?

It should be hard to imagine, but in our days of opposing anything the other side proposes, it’s sadly not.

Which doesn’t lessen the logic of new federal legislation unveiled by U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Moosic) Tuesday at a media conference in Forty Fort. The proposal has garnered bipartisan support.