Posted on 11/03/2012 11:03:16 AM PDT by blueyon
FEMA's vaunted "lean forward" strategy that called for advanced staging of supplies for emergency distribution failed to live up to its billing in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
In fact, the agency appears to have been completely unprepared to distribute bottled water to Hurricane Sandy victims when the storm hit this Monday. In contrast to its stated policy, FEMA failed to have any meaningful supplies of bottled water -- or any other supplies, for that matter -- stored in nearby facilities as it had proclaimed it would on its website. This was the case despite several days advance warning of the impending storm.
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I don’t remember the union thugs in New Orleans running off the non-union utility workers from out of state either.
Don’t worry, though, this is the same government who will be running Obamacare.
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Hey, I’m sure the president’s photo op will more than make up for not having any water.
Gee, with the brilliant and sympathetic Barack Hussein in charge, you wouldn’t think this sort of thing could happen!
I recall that after the Haiti earthquake, the Navy stationed an aircraft carrier offshore. In addition to health and food service, the carrier supplied thousands of gallons of fresh water from its desalinization plant onboard (I think they did the same thing after the tsunami in Indonesia).
Of course, that was before Obama decided we didn't need a Navy any more...
Fema unprepared to deliver bottled WATER? What the...
Water is the #1 most important thing to deliver to people in a crisis.
Didn’t any of these fools learn anything in their years at their beloved universities? Common sense trumps education every time.
Parts of ( red state) W. VA are still cut off by 2 1/2 feet of snow dropped by Sandy. Hey, MSM, the storm was 800 mi. wide, and affected something other than the beloved roller coaster of your sepia tinted childhood memories of the Jersey Shore. Send your foreign correspondents who are back for storm coverage to flyover country.
Yes, it is, but no one will know: the "media" won't report it 'cuz it will make Zero look bad. Now if Bush was still Prez, they'd be all over it!
It’s the ‘stand down’ anti-American’s fault!
On a yacht somewhere drinking.
Other media not doing a very good job of covering this.
Have no fear, thirsty citizens, “vendors are being evaluated”. No doubt the whole process will be completed with a week or two and then distribution can begin.
This administration and its agencies are so filled with incompetent, corrupt, moronic bureaucrats and community organizers. I can't begin to imagine how long it will take a Romney administration to turn this one around. In the meantime, a lot of people are suffering, and I fear it's going to become much worse.
I can’t wait until mankind invents the de-salinization machine.
As an ex-FedExer, let me say that Walmart's logistics are fantatsic. We'd get electronic stuff flown into O'Hare from Asia,within 3 hours we had truckloads of it to the Walmart Regional distribution "warehouse" where they would load DIRECTLY into Walmart trailers for delivery, the skids wouldn't even touch the floor. Those teucks would be on their way to the stores in 90 minutes.
No. Let the doomberg bring water, personally, to Staten Island and other disaster areas! He can well afford truckloads to those areas!
You’ll need a new screen name after Tuesday!
I’ll bet that there are a hundred tanker trucks in my area,and theres a factory near here that manufactures plastic bottles.
Without electricity, without homes? I'll bet you are comfy and cozy.
They should just give everyone $500 to go buy their own food and water and place to live for a few days/weeks rather than waiting on FEMA to do anything.
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