Libs are grasping at any straw they can to trick people into their agenda.
Now, anything that happens, weather related or not is fodder for "caused by Americans Global Warming you gotta get on board, no debate necessary" ......that sort of rott.
Con Artists always want to hustle you into quick decision. Its their best trick.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." (H. L. Mencken.)
*** Gov. has the incentive to drive this particular con game as hard as they can. The reward is too great for them to let it go without a fight.