Posted on 07/14/2002 7:45:49 PM PDT by iowaboy
FEMA, the federal agency charged with disaster preparedness, is engaged in a crash effort to prepare for multiple mass destruction attacks on U.S. cities, NewsMax has learned.
FEMA is already preparing for nuclear, biological and chemical attacks against U.S. cities, including the possibility of multiple attacks with mass destruction weapons.
The agency has already notified vendors, contractors and consultants that it needs to be prepared to handle the logistics of aiding millions of displaced Americans from urban areas that may be attacked.
The agency plans to create emergency, makeshift cities that could house hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans who may have to flee their urban homes if their cities are attacked.
Ominously, FEMA has been given a deadline of having the cities ready to go by January 2003 - in about six months.
A source familiar with the deadline believes the effort is related to making the U.S. prepared for counterattacks if the U.S. invades Iraq sometime next year.
FEMA is currently seeking bids from major real estate management firms, and plans to name three firms in the near future to handle the logistics and planning for these temporary cities.
FEMA officials have told these firms they already have tents and trailers ordered. The tents and trailers would provide shelter for displaced populations.
The real estate firms are expected to provide engineers and architects to lay the plans for emergency infrastructure needs, such as sewerage and electricity.
... The agency plans to create emergency, makeshift cities that could house hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans who may have to flee their urban homes if their cities are attacked ...Makeshift cities? Why not a makeshift nation? We could use it as a ruse or a decoy to draw enemy fire. We could defend it with makeshift military formations.
Civil Defense was mainly there to save a few people in case of nuclear bombers, then sometime later it became FEMA, still responsible for doing something in case of nuclear attack. They have branched out in the past couple of decades to doing something in case of any disaster, none of which compare to a nuclear disaster, in fact they have nothing about a possible nationwide nuclear disaster for many years.
Nothing.
They should hire Disney
Yea - just like the "fake Rock Ridge" in Blazing Saddles...
Heck, it worked in Blazing Saddles. Why don't we create duplicates of major cities to trick Mongo and his swarthy band of terrorists.
Like maybe we're going to get hit by a meteor, a really big one, rather than have the Iraqis, Iranians, North Koreans or Chinese decide to start a nuclear war?
Frankly I don't believe any of those nations, on their own, could start a war with us and have a reasonable expectation of winning it. The idea that they would unite and fight us as a front ignores the economic reality of China, the domestic reality of Iran and the fact that the North Koreans are devastated by famine. That leaves the Iraqis and they really are isolated.
Something here isn't adding up.
Have to get people to read, so if there isn't something really big attracting people you've got to scare 'em into reading.
What's the chance that these may actually be the new internment camps for all the Muslims? Hoping that is the case.
Why must we die? We must die so that we can be politically correct and maintain some liberal's "moral high ground", and so we can be more compasionate than thou.
The Clinton years?
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