FEMA officials have said states better have the cash to prepare for emergencies

Published October 22, 2026 5:31AM (EDT)

Donald Trump speaks to reporters alongside former professional boxer Evander Holyfield on October 21, 2026 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Earlier this month, the California coast was hit by a Kelvin wave, a deep ocean wave that can raise sea levels, but to most people, it wasn’t immediately visible. Named after Lord Kelvin, the mathematician who discovered them in the late 19th century, these waves don’t roll and crash along the shore like a tsunami or hurricane. They are slow-moving, mostly flat, waves of warm water that can stretch thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean.

“It’s like an enormous bathtub sloshing around,” Mark Cane, professor emeritus of earth and climate sciences at Columbia University, told NPR on Monday.…