Posted on 09/07/2005 1:27:26 PM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
BTTT
Bump!
I live in North Carolina and wasn't to hard hit by Floyd, but I can tell you we didn't see FEMA or other people for several days. The flooding went on for days and days almost no effort to stop it. People relied on themselves and the help of local groups to get by. Same way with Hurricane Fran in 1996 which was very bad had power out for 10 days and days before we saw in FEMA help. Back to Floyd, much of the state was cut off because of flooding, Hwy 70 and I40 were shut down for several days because of flooding and damage keeping many people trapped from their home. In my home town, I went to check on my office after which is normally a 8-10 block drive, it took almost an hour because of trying to find a way around flood waters.
Plus the impact of Katrina makes Floyd look like springtime sprinkles.
In New Jersey, Floyd was nothing more than a police/fire/EMS overtime racket. The towns that were flooded out in its path needed a lot of help from neighboring towns and from state emergency officials (including the state police), and that need for help magically disappeared once FEMA stopped paying for all the overtime.
Nice find, Carl. By the way,I was listening to Imus this morning when he started in on you for pointing out his idiotic remarks of yesterday about how Bush doesn't care about black people(which caused me to turn him off, btw), and just had a good laugh. He tried to reprise the refrain today, but it doesn't seem to be catching on, at least with those not ready for white coats and heavy meds.
Bill's FEMA was pretty sorry, Hillary. Glad you brought it up.
I guess we should reserve comment on federal response until we get a full racial and economic view of those affected.
Bound Brook, NJ was under 17 feet of water. Local people hitched their boats to trailers and put them into the streets of Bound Brook, Middlesex Borough, Manville, Bridgewater, etc. Non-military helicopters were the ones doing the roof rescues in the immediate aftermath.
Note that most of the people who lived in downtown Bound Brook were illegal immigrants from Central America but nobody asked them for ID. Local emergency responders just went and got them. No looting either. In the months following, I was down at FISH donating baby clothes, toys, a crib and more and encouraged friends and family to do the same.
FEMA later reimbursed the towns and bought and knocked down some houses.
Yea, and Clinton couldn't even handle springtime sprinklers.
Sorry, you must be remembering wrong! Clinton appointee Witt was in charge -- everything went like clockwork! Hillary even said so. ;-)
Howie Carr read this on his show. If it hadn't been posted, I'd have had to.
"It seemed there was preparation for Hurricane Floyd, but then came Flood Floyd," Jackson began. "Bridges are overwhelmed, levees are overwhelmed, whole town's under water . . . [it's] an awesome scene of tragedy. So there's a great misery index in North Carolina."
Hurricane Floyd? Someone is going to have to remind me. I'm sure it was terrible for those going through it but was it even in the top 10 of hurricanes to hit this country? Top 20?
And Clinton's FEMA didn't handle it well. Do tell.
My oh my....guess 'suuuuumbody didn't learn very well from previous experience.
While other States expecting impact from Katrina asked for Federal help BEFORE she hit, ol LA and her gang of corrupted officials refused to ask for Federal help and prayed that Katrina would turn out to be another Ivan.
"Though nearly a month had passed since the storm first hit, Witt said his agency was just beginning to address the problem."
"We're starting to move the camper trailers in," he explained. "It's been so wet it's been difficult to get things in there, but now it's going to be moving very quickly. And I think you're going to see a -- I think the people there will see a big difference over within this next weekend."
ONE MONTH LATER...
"Hurricane Floyd? Someone is going to have to remind me. I'm sure it was terrible for those going through it but was it even in the top 10 of hurricanes to hit this country? Top 20?"
It was a pretty strong storm, I don't think the winds were as strong as Hurricane Fran in 1996. But the flooding was the problem, it flooded areas not even in the 1000 year flood plain.
If that's true you'd think that FEMA would have made some positive changes in the intervening six years.
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