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I expected Civil Defense to have the following:

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I truly expected that FEMA was prepared for the worst case scenarios. One of the worst would have been a nuke in New York City.
I really believed they had 3 million jumpsuits(one size fits all), 6 million disposable shoes, water and meals for 3 million people for 3 days to a week, disposable diapers for 300,00 for a week and cots for 3 million.
All sitting someplace centrally located at an air force base ready to loaded onto 747 cargo planes or trucks.
I mean, I really believed it.
I have no idea what it would cost for all that but 10 billion should cover it. Chump change in a 2.5 trillion dollar budget.
I will watch the hearings on Katrina closely to see if the Feds had anything resembling what they suggested every American have stored for a disaster.
 
Originally posted by: techs
I truly expected that FEMA was prepared for the worst case scenarios. One of the worst would have been a nuke in New York City.
I really believed they had 3 million jumpsuits(one size fits all), 6 million disposable shoes, water and meals for 3 million people for 3 days to a week, disposable diapers for 300,00 for a week and cots for 3 million.
All sitting someplace centrally located at an air force base ready to loaded onto 747 cargo planes or trucks.
I mean, I really believed it.
I have no idea what it would cost for all that but 10 billion should cover it. Chump change in a 2.5 trillion dollar budget.
I will watch the hearings on Katrina closely to see if the Feds had anything resembling what they suggested every American have stored for a disaster.
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You didn't ge the memo. We live in an era of lowered expectations. Michael Brown is the poster child for this era. That child won't be left behind. He's a Brownie. Even the president of the United States syys so.

 
We're in an Republican era of only for the rich, all others fvk off and die.

Today's local news latest FEMA excuse is that they don't have enough people.

No kidding, when they're all overseas for an excellent adventure.
 
Originally posted by: techs
I truly expected that FEMA was prepared for the worst case scenarios. One of the worst would have been a nuke in New York City.
I really believed they had 3 million jumpsuits(one size fits all), 6 million disposable shoes, water and meals for 3 million people for 3 days to a week, disposable diapers for 300,00 for a week and cots for 3 million.
All sitting someplace centrally located at an air force base ready to loaded onto 747 cargo planes or trucks.
I mean, I really believed it.
I have no idea what it would cost for all that but 10 billion should cover it. Chump change in a 2.5 trillion dollar budget.
I will watch the hearings on Katrina closely to see if the Feds had anything resembling what they suggested every American have stored for a disaster.
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That's true, I would have expected a much more organized and efficient effort than the sad display put on for Katrina, especially in this era of supposedly heightened awareness for unexpected disasters. 🙁

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
We're in an Republican era of only for the rich, all others fvk off and die.
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Originally posted by: TRUMPHENT
Originally posted by: techs
I truly expected that FEMA was prepared for the worst case scenarios. One of the worst would have been a nuke in New York City.
I really believed they had 3 million jumpsuits(one size fits all), 6 million disposable shoes, water and meals for 3 million people for 3 days to a week, disposable diapers for 300,00 for a week and cots for 3 million.
All sitting someplace centrally located at an air force base ready to loaded onto 747 cargo planes or trucks.
I mean, I really believed it.
I have no idea what it would cost for all that but 10 billion should cover it. Chump change in a 2.5 trillion dollar budget.
I will watch the hearings on Katrina closely to see if the Feds had anything resembling what they suggested every American have stored for a disaster.
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You didn't ge the memo. We live in an era of lowered expectations. Michael Brown is the poster child for this era. That child won't be left behind. He's a Brownie. Even the president of the United States syys so.
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You realize Brownie presided over 5 of the top 10 worst disasters FEMA has ever had to address? Well actually he started working on his 6th.

http://www.fema.gov/library/df_8.shtm

 
Florida, Florida, Florida, Florida.

1) NG not deployed ?
2) Bubba Jeb as the Gov ?
3) There is so much more money available to Fla than to La., Ms, & Al . . combined.
4) No cities in Fla. went underwater for 3 weeks either.

It's like comparing Apples with . . . Aardvarks.
 
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
Florida, Florida, Florida, Florida.

1) NG not deployed ?
2) Bubba Jeb as the Gov ?
3) There is so much more money available to Fla than to La., Ms, & Al . . combined.
4) No cities in Fla. went underwater for 3 weeks either.

It's like comparing Apples with . . . Aardvarks.
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Then what do you compare Katrina with?
 
Certainly not to the previous storms that hit Fla.
I saw what Charlie, Frances, & Jeanne did,
Was supposed to be in Sanibel 2 weeks after Charlie hit -
instead was in Clearwater Beach - hunkered down for Frances.

Went to Sanibel this year - & got out as Dennis came up the coast.
Spent a loooooonnnnnng day in traffic accross the Fla. panhandle
as the traffic went nuts & people had an urge to crash into each other.

All of the storms from last year & so far this year that hit Fla. don't even compare.
Think about it - 3 million people accross the Gulf Coast have been displaced
from West of New Orleans all the way to near Pensacola. Towns are G O N E !

Local and State were overwhelmed and incapacitated, so Chertoff flew to Atlanta the next day for a conference on Avian Flu in China.

The Government has ONLY one job - the wellbeing of the citizens of the country.
This rendetion can't do it after they gutted the mechanisms that did work.
 
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
Certainly not to the previous storms that hit Fla.
I saw what Charlie, Frances, & Jeanne did,
Was supposed to be in Sanibel 2 weeks after Charlie hit -
instead was in Clearwater Beach - hunkered down for Frances.

Went to Sanibel this year - & got out as Dennis came up the coast.
Spent a loooooonnnnnng day in traffic accross the Fla. panhandle
as the traffic went nuts & people had an urge to crash into each other.

All of the storms from last year & so far this year that hit Fla. don't even compare.
Think about it - 3 million people accross the Gulf Coast have been displaced
from West of New Orleans all the way to near Pensacola. Towns are G O N E !

Local and State were overwhelmed and incapacitated, so Chertoff flew to Atlanta the next day for a conference on Avian Flu in China.

The Government has ONLY one job - the wellbeing of the citizens of the country.
This rendetion can't do it after they gutted the mechanisms that did work.
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I think you are being overdramatic. If a man who headed up 6 of the worst 10 disasters we have ever seen isnt qualified then I doubt you will find anybody who is.



 
But that's the problem - he didn't 'head-up' anything, the State government did it all, except when Brown sent in the adjusters to write millions of dollars in checks to areas that didn't get hit . . but were Political Voter Base strongholds.

FEMA - Free Money !

Florida itself has it pretty right on since the 1992 Hurricane Andrew & what Lawton Chiles enacted there - and Jeb Bush kept intact.

But the way today's FEMA is . . it's pathetic. A classic example of Starve the Beast in order to gut Governments responsibility.
Do you really think that a handfull of select millionares are more important than say, 290 million American Citizens ?
 
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
But that's the problem - he didn't 'head-up' anything, the State government did it all, except when Brown sent in the adjusters to write millions of dollars in checks to areas that didn't get hit . . but were Political Voter Base strongholds.

FEMA - Free Money !

Florida itself has it pretty right on since the 1992 Hurricane Andrew & what Lawton Chiles enacted there - and Jeb Bush kept intact.

But the way today's FEMA is . . it's pathetic. A classic example of Starve the Beast in order to gut Governments responsibility.
Do you really think that a handfull of select millionares are more important than say, 290 million American Citizens ?
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This corruption isnt new. Louisiana officials are being investiagted from the last storm where the state owes FEMA about 30 million for charges that were deemed wrong.


 
So - what's your point ?

I expect MY government to be able to do things . . . you don't expect YOUR government to be able to do a damn thing.

Is this what we want from a strong America ? A bunch of self centered asswipes that pad their buddies for quick proffit & let the country rot ?

 
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
So - what's your point ?

I expect MY government to be able to do things . . . you don't expect YOUR government to be able to do a damn thing.

Is this what we want from a strong America ? A bunch of self centered asswipes that pad their buddies for quick proffit & let the country rot ?
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I concur
 
Originally posted by: techs
I truly expected that FEMA was prepared for the worst case scenarios. One of the worst would have been a nuke in New York City.
I really believed they had 3 million jumpsuits(one size fits all), 6 million disposable shoes, water and meals for 3 million people for 3 days to a week, disposable diapers for 300,00 for a week and cots for 3 million.
All sitting someplace centrally located at an air force base ready to loaded onto 747 cargo planes or trucks.
I mean, I really believed it.
I have no idea what it would cost for all that but 10 billion should cover it. Chump change in a 2.5 trillion dollar budget.
I will watch the hearings on Katrina closely to see if the Feds had anything resembling what they suggested every American have stored for a disaster.
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All of which can be transported to wherever needed at the snap of finger...yea right.
If you are waiting for the goverment to come save you, you had better be prepared to wait.
 
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