Yes normally the government helps, also people give donations to those affected. Unfortunately there is nothing the Government can do about Natural Disasters. It is usually not this dangerous we rank Hurricanes based on how fast the wind moves. Weak Hurricanes are CAT 1-3 and CAT 4-5 are very dangerous, Most of the time they never get strong enough to even become a hurricane and are just "Tropical Storms" this is a very rare case were we get two CAT 4-5 Hurricanes is the same year let alone 1 week apart.
to put in perspective last time we had a really bad hurricane was Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Now we are going to experience TWO of those in the matter of a week wind speed of 174 MPH (280 kmh) which is a CAT 5 hurricane