Right wingers just denied the necessity, and then of course there were the "as a man of the left, let me tell you what the left is doing wrong" types who would always burst in, Kool-Aid Man style, to inform us that the proposed solutions were inferior to solution Y, which would then be inferior to solution Z, etc. Round and round they always went, ensuring little would be done.
Anyway, this is likely to be an actual big number.
Hurricane Milton grew into a powerful Category 4 storm on Monday, less than two days after it developed in the Gulf of Mexico, and it could maintain that strength through landfall.*I am exaggerating how low this number was, but the numbers being kicked around at the time were pretty low!