The 47% better batten down.

Hurricane Sandy, the Election Day Storm of 2012

MSNBC:

Mitt Romney would drastically cut funding for disaster relief agencies like FEMA. Romney won’t give specifics on his budget plan, but as Mother Jones noted in August:

In a 2012 report on Rep. Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” road map (which Romney has said is similar to his own), the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted that, due to the severe cuts to non-entitlement, non-defense spending, the costs for things like emergency management would have to be passed on to the states—which, with just a few exceptions, are currently in an even tighter financial bind than Washington.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explains Romney’s cuts like this: