2 excellent Christian relief organizations:
Southern Baptist's NAMB: http://www.namb.net/
Samaritan's Purse: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/
Would it be too much to ask that your breathless breaking NOT news wait for confirmation!
I wonder what authority FEMA would have over private security firms.
Well, Whorealdo has arrived in NOLA, so it would certainly make sense.
Nothing on google news
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=fema+houston&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d
I confirm that you're a rumor-mongering twit.
Taking over authority is not the same as intergovernmental cooperation. They might as well declare martial law, it amounts to the same thing and doesn't have the whiff of dissimulation.
They may have some pull with city police, but I doubt that they can comandeer private security personnel as they are not civil servants.
grapevine now being used as source
Let's hope so -- and they put together better security measures and personnel that the Mayor of N. O. has.
What NO police? Once the donut shops were evacuated they were long gone. Say what you want about NYC, the cops and firefighters there would be swarming all over NO taking care of business.
How long is this going to last. They can't keep it up forever. These people need to be disbursed across the country. Give them a choice of where to go.
Steve Harrigan (FoxNews) is reporting a convoy of armed NG and police vehicles going into central N. O. to counter the domestic terrorists who have laid seige to parts of the city.
Geraldo confirming similar at his location.
This wholesale use of the term refugees has changed the character of the situation to such a degree as to fully politicize it; these people are not refugees, they are simply evacuees whose homes have been rendered temporarily unusable.
We lose the battle as soon as the terms of engagement are coopted and yet all we do is wail.
Interesting. Yet, FEMA asked my county(Loudoun, VA) for police help, and after they got 22 officers and multiple vehicles filled with aid, FEMA told them NOT to go. Apparently, if you are helping FEMA out, you need a special FEMA number for insurance? pay? etc... FEMA refuses to give Loudoun County this number so they could go help.
In fact, they waited for two days, and finally started driving down yesterday, and along the way FEMA called and said for them to turn around and go home.
In a situation where on-site help is desperately needed, FEMA is telling the media one thing, but actuallt doing something completely different.
I don't doubt this at all. They are not accepting new evacuees into the Astrodome.
There will be rioting there if they don't quickly solve where these people should go. The folks are fed up!!
this would not suprise me.... there will be a lot of federal takeover in the surrounding states... they are doing it specifically to ensure the security of the host cities.