This is what you get in a society where freedom of speech is equivalent with the freedom to spread lies, combined with generations of a shitty education system and multimedia news companies who foster ignorance and pander to politicians who lobby for corporations instead of people. Conspiracy theorist nut-jobs are literally claiming that the hurricanes are "engineered" by the Deep State Government, or some such bullshit, meanwhile these are the same people who believe that Global Warming is a lie.