Posted on 11/03/2012 11:36:04 AM PDT by ruralvoter
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has placed a rush order of two million meals to be delivered to Floyd Bennett New York Harbor Parks, and Lakehurst New Jersey.
The solicitation was placed at 2:30 pm EST on 2 November 2012, with a response time of no later than 8 pm on the same day.
The solicitation was amended less than four hours later for providers to provide a quote of four million meals, preferably of the self-heating
variety.
The request is for self-heating Meals Ready to Eat (MRE) with a 13-month shelf life preferred, and delivered wrapped and palletized by 4:30 PM local time on Monday, 5 November 2012.
One half will be shipped to Floyd Bennett New York Harbor Parks and that will be due on 6 Nov 2012, the other one million will ship to Lakehurst New Jersey and be due the following day.
That seems like quite a bit of food for just that one person to eat.
We called MREs “Meals Rejected by Ethiopia” when I was in. I wonder if they’ve improved any. That “Chicken a la King” was a mo....
I'd be in Central Park with my slingshot checking out the critters.
No difference in voting patterns.
As a "rush order", no less. Costs more.
This is one of the biggest reasons I moved away from the city and never looked back. A major upset and suddenly you’re just one in a million without the basics that everyone is fighting for, and if you did plan ahead you better not let your neighbors know.
Being completely dependent on “the system” for water, food, heat, transportation, safety, and then possibly losing all of it at once kept me up at night.
Sure as heck isn’t the way I wanted to live.
What does FEMA do, anyway? Wouldn't you think with a population of 320 million people they would have 1.6 million MREs on hand at all times? That's only 1/2 of 1% of the population.
And, just who is FEMA ordering the MREs from? I venture that it is private enterprise who can prepare and deliver this emergency order. But, of course, FEMA will get the credit.
FEMA is unprepared ... private enterprise bails them out ... FEMA is hailed as a hero on election day.
The world is upside down.
That seems like quite a bit of food for just that one person to eat.
It's a misprint.
It should have said, "New Jerseyan." All that walkin' around in front of the cameras made Christie hungry. You don't wanna see Christie hungry.
It’s been three days. They are hungry. But they are far from starving.
MREs, or as we used to call them, “Meals Ready to Excrete”.
***** “We called MREs “Meals Rejected by Ethiopia”” ******
On the bright side, once they start eating the MREs they will need a lot less toilet paper
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I hope for the sake of the starving New Yorkers that each MRE comes with a certificate of union approval. Unless each vendor can prove that no non-union hands have touched these MREs, they will never be distributed.
Sandy’s lesson is right before your eyes just as it was with Katrina; You either prepare and stand on your own or you can depend on a bunch of self-serving politicos, third class bureaucratic and chance to provide your basic needs.
Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Its your choice you can prep or you can stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm blanket and a kiss for your boo-boo. Maybe while you stand there you will get a chance to a prop in some politico’s photo op and even get your picture on the national news.
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For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, gas cans, cooking stove/fuel, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
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Just saw two FEMA people go into the town hall five minutes after the mayor - they wear windbreakers with FEMA on the back like FBI jackets.
Small town. Volunteer rescue squad and fire. Squad told to account for every little expenditure to get FEMA reimbursement - you drive yourself a mile to the squad building - write it down.
Some people in town may still be without power and we all almost lost our water, but didn’t. There are a lot of trees down but we have suffered very little - no houses damaged, you can easily get to a store that has power or visit a neighbor who does - we got off easy, easy, easy in comparison to people at the shore, on Long Island and Staten Island.
So why is FEMA wasting any time with us right now? We can absorb our own costs, the tree men got the trees of the wires today.
A few years back FEMA paid for the wet carpet in my uncle’s basement in NC. He said it was to make their congressman look good.
Thank you for the links.
This disaster will probably teach a lot of lessons too
So there you go. And NYC thought FEMA is useless. 72 hours later the clip board carrying Army results in the conclusion people need to eat. FEMA = $50M command centers and $150,000 ‘jobs’. Resources and supplies for the hardhit? Not coming. But not to worry at FEMA the MSM will carry their water.
Will the MRE explode if the wash it down with a 32 oz Slurpee?
Is that like 1 MRE each?
seriously?
This is nothing but an expensive photo-op
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