Comments on: Hurricane Break

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:26:15 +0000

You’re right and you’re welcome. Citizens Insurance, the state’s insurer of last resort, will be bankrupt because Batboy has been holding down premiums and depleting the pay out fund. Republicans have been spending the “rainy day” fund to cover their deficits cause by their tax cuts.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:39:14 +0000

Local officials are concerned if they do anything major without FEMA approval, FEMA won’t reimburse them.

yep. and local governments, especially in florida, have no money, even in the best of times.

and thanks for the musical interlude. 🙂

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 02:13:20 +0000

Puerto Rico is still struggling, but making some progress. In addition to everything else a significant portion of the population has moved to the mainland. With luck and a sense of justice they will have registered to vote against Republicans.

By: Anya

Anya — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:23:10 +0000

I can feel my post-Katrina outrage beginning to stir again.. Does anyone know how Puerto Rico is doing these days?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:31:44 +0000

Local officials are concerned if they do anything major without FEMA approval, FEMA won’t reimburse them. There is a massive amount of debris to be removed so recovery can be begin, but FEMA needs to approve the debris removal companies and certify their trucks. If locals just go to work FEMA can refuse to cover their costs which slows down the recovery. The system as it is currently configured under Homeland Security sucks.

After Opal in 1995, FEMA hired locals with pickups to load up with water, ice, and food and make deliveries to areas. FEMA brought in supplies and fuel and then depended on locals who find areas when the street signs were gone. Then they had other locals go around with cars loaded with forms to help people sign up for the various benefits.

Now people have to figure out how to get to one of the FEMA distribution points for water and ice, and how to “call an 1-800 number” or visit the FEMA web site when the phones don’t work and there’s no power to fill out forms. That is because it is “more efficient and less expensive”. It’s called “running government like a business”…

By: Shirt

Shirt — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 13:57:51 +0000

The FEMA funds were sequestered for locking up dangerous migrant children kidnapped from their parents

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 06:56:52 +0000

FEMA director Brock Long is too busy figuring out how to rip off the government to actually run his agency, as far as I can tell. He already got ripped by the inspector general for using agency cars for his personal commute…. he’s also under fire for spending little time in Washington, instead taking four day weekends to his home in North Carolina.