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FEMA Smells
Last week we learned that FEMA was keeping (paying for) millions of pounds of ice beyond ... of FEMA trailers were leaching toxic formaldehyde and when confronted with complaints of probable poisoning FEMA's general
counsel "advised that we not do testing, which would imply FEMA's ownership ... "T BREATHE - FEMA preferred not to know if trailers were making people sick - Stephanie Grace - Times...
FEMA Ice Melted
Among the FEMA mismanagement blunders vis-a-vie Katrina - particularly New Orleans - the purchase of 85 million pounds of ice that never made it to the hurricane zone and has been stored at a cost ... food - it goes bad -
FEMA reasoned it could store the ice for the next "big one" in direct ... effort to be the good guy - FEMA tried to give it away - for free - surprise - no one stupid enough...
FEMA Can't Get Out Of Its Own Way
Associated Press has reported that FEMA has been selling or/or donating the travel trailers reportedly leeching formaldehyde causing serious illness to occupants already at a loss from the disasters that put them there in the first place - While FEMA claims to be "reviewing" is policy - " concerns about formaldehyde would not stop the agency from selling or donating surplus disaster trailers...
Not Treated Equality
The amount of federal aid provided to Mississippi and Louisiana is not proportional to the amount of damage each state suffered... So states the independent GulfGov project - ....confirming what everyone has known and said since Federal funds began flowing to the Gulf Coast States in the wake of 2005's ...
NOLA +2
... electricity - behind on a
patch of weeds sits the white FEMA trailer - assorted lawn chairs in
front ... canvas covered chain link -
never deployed by FEMA -
Unfortunately high crime rate - lurking...
Minnesota Flood Relief
... understand it, most of these homes don't have flood insurance, and are relying on FEMA, volunteers, and other relief organizations for their recovery. While my overall impressions of the FEMA...
New Orleans Redux
... of casualties – graffiti cursing at FEMA – piles and piles and
piles of discarded useless framing lumber ... to be cleaned up before it can be fixed –
FEMA trailers scattered here and there – heard these cost ... – a parking lot full of unused FEMA trailers –
Down St. Charles in search of a Radio Shack - left instead...
My Bike For Your Cooking
... was
ready to put them in the FEMA pile when I met a man who said he knew a
restaurant owner who...
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