dmcowen674
No Lifer
FEMA is an absolute joke and travesty.
Can Americans ever rely on our own country ever again?
Not at this rate and it continues to get worse everyday.
We just had a rash of Tornadoes adn a whole lot more coming as spring sets in and instaed of providing anyo fthese thoudands upon thousands of unused trailers to strom victims, they spend resources selling them off.
My wife continues to get multiple letters from FEMA on a daily basis with a bunch of absolute garbage left over from Katrina.
It should be completely scrapped and start over with competent people.
3-7-2007 FEMA is selling off used trailers
A year and a half after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA is auctioning off at fire-sale prices thousands of trailers used by storm victims, raising fears among mobile-home dealers that the government will flood the market and depress prices.
Some critics of FEMA said the sale of emblematic of the way FEMA botched its handling of Katrina: FEMA ordered more trailers than it needed, it let many of them sit out in the open, exposed to the elements, and now, some fear, it is about to double-cross the trailer dealers.
FEMA spent $2.7 billion to buy 145,000 mobile homes and trailers after Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in August and September 2005, paying a bulk-rate price of about $19,000 per trailer, on average. FEMA now has 60,000 trailers in storage nationwide; several thousand of them ? exactly how many is not clear ? were never used.
Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., said FEMA should send some of the Hope trailers to Dumas, where tornadoes hit Feb. 24. "This is a symbol of what is wrong with FEMA and why so many people have lost confidence in their very own government," he said.
Can Americans ever rely on our own country ever again?
Not at this rate and it continues to get worse everyday.
We just had a rash of Tornadoes adn a whole lot more coming as spring sets in and instaed of providing anyo fthese thoudands upon thousands of unused trailers to strom victims, they spend resources selling them off.
My wife continues to get multiple letters from FEMA on a daily basis with a bunch of absolute garbage left over from Katrina.
It should be completely scrapped and start over with competent people.
3-7-2007 FEMA is selling off used trailers
A year and a half after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA is auctioning off at fire-sale prices thousands of trailers used by storm victims, raising fears among mobile-home dealers that the government will flood the market and depress prices.
Some critics of FEMA said the sale of emblematic of the way FEMA botched its handling of Katrina: FEMA ordered more trailers than it needed, it let many of them sit out in the open, exposed to the elements, and now, some fear, it is about to double-cross the trailer dealers.
FEMA spent $2.7 billion to buy 145,000 mobile homes and trailers after Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in August and September 2005, paying a bulk-rate price of about $19,000 per trailer, on average. FEMA now has 60,000 trailers in storage nationwide; several thousand of them ? exactly how many is not clear ? were never used.
Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., said FEMA should send some of the Hope trailers to Dumas, where tornadoes hit Feb. 24. "This is a symbol of what is wrong with FEMA and why so many people have lost confidence in their very own government," he said.
