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.
Chuckie Schumer was running around wearing a FEMA jacket yesterday.