If there are any NY or NJ freepers, please add comments about the location of this MRE disbursement.
Vote and get an MRE. Damn FEMA had noting planned, staged or ready to roll yet Obama was praising them to the hilt.
Will there be an implicit message to vote for Obama if you want to eat?
I expect the mobile military polling stations will be part of the food distribution convoys.
I see that FEMA got right on this, only about 72 hrs late and a week after some sort of disaster was predicted.
This is what we have feral gubmint involvement for.
FEMA just ordering food now?? FEMA , no food, no water, no gas.... Only photo ops!
No Big Gulp for you!
FEMA just a little behind the curve here.
So where did all this go then? Where is it?
“FEMA Requests Information on the Availability of 140 Million Packets of Food, Blankets, and Body Bags
Jan 24, 2011
UPDATE: The Department of Homeland Security is also looking for a vendor that can supply “various fuels in support of disaster relief.”
DHS specifically cites the states that it will be needed in. North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida. That’s right, the Gulf of Mexico.
FEMA is also looking for Hydration Supplies for a disaster in the New Madrid Fault System just as they are looking for food, blankets, and underwater body bags.”
Now, we’ll have another Mountain House shortage?
Now, three/four/five days after the storm -- a storm that everyone knew would leave up to ten million people without electricity -- FEMA calls for two millions MREs.
That's the difference between private enterprise and government "service."
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.