My best friend in Texas just called, and her husband just got called up and is leaving this afternoon. He's in the Army reserves some sort of engineering unit. In civilian life, he has a Master's in Civil Engineering and is director of transportation for the city of Irving, Texas.
My friend is the director of public works for Addison, Texas, and she said that the city was planning an Octoberfest, but FEMA has confiscated the tents and porta-potties that were going to be for the festival.
I think the nation needs to throw a big party for Texas once this is all over. They have gone above and beyond.
Please, FEMA does not confiscate. They make the request, and generally the owner of the equipment honors the request. There have been numerous postings about FEMA confiscations in Texas. Simply untrue, and feeds hysteria. Texas, and Texans are helping as much as we can. Re-imbursement will come later.