SANDY

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Nowhere to campaign, it's a priority.......LOL

[quotePotus] toured a street with many damaged homes. He talked with locals in front of a home whose front was partially missing and next to another that caved in on itself. The water was a few hundred feet away.

"We've got some work to do and I want you to know I'm here to do it," Potus said to a crowd outside a boarded up brick church called "St. George Malankara Orthodox Church of India Inc."

The small crowd outside the church thanked the president and Mayor Bloomberg and the local boro president. [/quote]

Did I ever tell you He's my hero.....

 

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Those aren't FEMA trailers, that is a recent photo of the Southwind family trailer park.


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Like....so what?
That changes the FACTS?

 

[SparrowHawk]

Allow me to ask what has FEMA done to date to help folks battered by Sandy. What I'm seeing the State of New Jersey getting things done on their own with the aid of the Red Cross, Mennonite Disaster Services and a host of others whose primary goal is not to perpetuate their existance (FEMA) but to actually help people

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

"As of October 8, 2011, FEMA has 7,474 employees across the country – at Headquarters, the ten regional offices, the National Emergency Training Center, Center for Domestic Preparedness/Noble Training Center and other locations.

FEMA is not the team, but part of a team. That team includes federal partners, state, tribal and local officials, the private sector, non-profits and faith-based groups and the general public. "

 

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"As of October 8, 2011, FEMA has 7,474 employees across the country – at Headquarters, the ten regional offices, the National Emergency Training Center, Center for Domestic Preparedness/Noble Training Center and other locations.

FEMA is not the team, but part of a team. That team includes federal partners, state, tribal and local officials, the private sector, non-profits and faith-based groups and the general public. "

They tell you about them cutting and running when the snow storm was coming to the area?

That's dedication.....

 

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Press pool report:

Potus visited a FEMA and SBA disaster tent as a loud crowds of about a 100 locals looked on and yelled for his attention, as well as a tent holding boxes of toiletries, as well cans of soup. (Campbell's was well represented) and boxed food to victims of Sandy.
Pooler got to talk with a girl who was getting some supplies. She said her house was on the beach but "it's gone." She laughed and said it's "still standing..." but they can't live in it. They're living [with] family.
She said of the president:
"We need help--he should of been here a long time ago."
A young hispanic man who just met the president said he "lost everything; I lost my job."
"Thanks so much," he said he wanted to say to the president.
From what pool could see through the windows in the tent, Potus shook hands, hugged a few folks and chatted.
He offered consoling words to a few local residents.
To a few volunteers who said they were from Texas, West Virginia and other states, Potus said:
"We got the whole country represented here...we're proud of you guys."
"Having young people like you guys involved" in helping out it "tremendous," the president told some FEMA Corps volunteers.

 

[700UW]

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-11-05/news/34931112_1_fema-trailers-brad-gair-nycha-buildings

The feds may put up trailers and pre-fab houses to shelter tens of thousands of New Yorkers whose homes were ruined by superstorm Sandy.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/us/sandy-aftermath/index.html

FEMA's answer for New York: Fix up the homes as best they can and put people back in them.
Faced with a lack of physical space for FEMA trailers and limited access to available rental apartments and hotels, FEMA officials in New York said they are bent on making flood-soaked homes inhabitable as winter weather moves in.

 

[SparrowHawk]

FEMA, like most things the Government does is inept. Private organizations do a better job for less money.

 

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“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”
– President Ronald Reagan

Those wise and yet haunting words spoken by one of our nation’s greatest presidents couldn’t ring more true – especially today, as winter sets in on an estimated 130,000 of our fellow Americans who are still struggling without power. Many live without heat, hot water or inhabitable homes and question the government’s efforts to alleviate their condition.
Amid the election frenzy, several mainstream media outlets instantly praised the Obama administration’s response to the Hurricane Sandy devastation in the Northeast. But let’s look beneath the congratulatory headlines to see the real and horrifying picture of what’s happening.
Right now, homeless Americans are literally freezing, wrapped in blankets and trash bags as they struggle to survive in FEMA tent cities such as New Jersey’s “Camp Freedom,” which reportedly “resembles a prison camp.”
“Sitting there last night you could see your breath,” displaced resident Brian Sotelo told the Asbury Park Press. “At (Pine Belt) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. We got (expletived).”

Meanwhile, officials are said to be banning residents from taking pictures and even cutting off WiFi and power access.
“After everyone started complaining and they found out we were contacting the press, they brought people in,” Sotelo said. “Every time we plugged in an iPhone or something, the cops would come and unplug them.”
He added, “Everybody is angry over here. It’s like being in prison.”
In New York, residents of Gerritsen Beach have banded together to survive.
“With all due respect to the federal issue, we’re used to taking care of ourselves,” Doreen Garson, the acting volunteer fire chief, told the Washington Post as area residents received hot meals outside a trailer. “I don’t know what FEMA is really doing for anyone.”

To make matters worse, FEMA now expects Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to appear before Congress and request a taxpayer bailout for FEMA flood-insurance operations while it burns through $200 to $300 million a day.

Where did we go wrong? The moment we began looking to government to fill the role of caretaker, provider and savior.
What happened to the days when communities and churches were the places Americans turned to for help? We need to get back to basics where Americans care for our brothers and sisters and help them in times such as these.
http://www.wnd.com/2...isaster-relief/

Televised and published pictures plus personal appeals of Hurricane Sandy victims in New York and New Jersey touched the hearts of Shelter Islanders who generously filled truckloads of clothing and other goods bound for Island Park and Long Beach last week. But the word from the Federal Emergency Management Agency now is “stop.”
It’s not that the victims of Sandy have their needs met, but that FEMA has strict rules what can and can’t be accepted.
“We stopped taking things now,” said Marie Eiffel whose boutiques on Shelter Island and in Sag Harbor have been drop-off centers for goods that Sweet Tomato’s Jimi Rando trucked to neighborhoods devastated by Sandy.
“It was great,” Ms. Eiffel said. “We did get to those people before FEMA stepped in and it was a great turnout,” she said of the goods contributed by her friends and neighbors to boost the relief effort. Not only did Ms. Eiffel make her stores a drop-off point, but she contributed some of her own store inventory.

http://shelterisland...to-island-stop/

 

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If Bush was President...................Failure larger than Katrina and not a peep in MSM.

Dozens of residents are still living without heat, hot water, or electricity in condemned structures flooded by both sea and sewer water in the Gerritsen Beach community of Brooklyn after a request to FEMA for temporary housing after Hurricane Sandy was denied.
“We need structures and housing. It is truly desperate,” said Jameson Wells, executive assistant to the director of GB Cares Sandy Relief, a volunteer relief organization. FEMA has said they did not have appropriate trailers.
“They told us they were unavailable because they are unheated and not insulated,” Wells said.
However, around 92 FEMA trailers are sitting idle and unused 145 miles away in Pennsylvania, the Free Beacon has found. Two employees from different companies located near the trailers’ location on Route 315 in Plains Township, Pa., confirmed the trailers were there.
One employee of a nearby store who asked not to be identified said some units are bigger than others. All of the units are equipped with heat pumps.
http://freebeacon.com/flailing-fema/

 

[southwind]

So in closing, Barrack is still campaigning, instead of "Ruling"......................correct?

 

[Dog Wonder]

He won already.

Don't they have news on your radio station?

 

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He won already.

Don't they have news on your radio station?

You have no heart for what is going on and not being covered in MSM because it reflects poorly on the Black Jesus?

FEMA works with state agencies and volunteer organizations to determine what is appropriate for the community,” said FEMA spokeswoman Hannah Vick. “The temporary housing units are not necessarily a good option,” she said, citing the space they occupy and the need for water and sewer hookups.]

Meanwhile we sit fat dumb and happy in our holiday seasons.
Where is MSM coverage of the government failures?

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

I thought churches and community were the answer to all these problems. Sparrow can form a group and go save these people.

 

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I thought churches and community were the answer to all these problems. Sparrow can form a group and go save these people.

Looking like your FEMA team has fumbled the ball fairly consistently.