Posted on 06/30/2010 6:41:31 AM PDT by Whenifhow
Release Date: June 29, 2010 Release Number: HQ-10-128
» More Information on Texas Tropical Storm Alex
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced that an emergency exists in the state of Texas and that federal aid is available to supplement state and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Alex beginning on June 27, 2010, and continuing.
Federal funding is available to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the counties of Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Brooks, Cameron, Comal, Duval, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, McMullen, Medina, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Starr, Webb, Willacy, Wilson, and Zapata.
Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Emergency protective measures, limited to direct federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding.
Bradley Harris has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area.
FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.
http://home.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=12992
More information on Tropical Storm Alex
http://home.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=12992
Other articles:
Breaking news: Obama signs Texas emergency disaster declaration
http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2010/06/breaking_news_obama_signs_texa.html
TX Preps Emergency (video)
http://news.yahoo.com/video/politics-15749652#video=20636649
President declares state of emergency in Texas
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7086982.html
Texas preps emergency weather response for Alex
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation/20100629_ap_texasprepsemergencyweatherresponseforalex.html
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California Notified Of Gulf Evacuation Plans
http://theintelhub.com/2010/06/29/california-notified-of-gulf-evacuation-plans/
Wayne Madsen Report
June 28, 2010
A well-placed source in California told WMR that the California Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) has been briefed by its counterpart agencies in the Gulf coast states that there are plans to conduct a mass evacuation of millions of Gulf coast residents due to the catastrophic environmental and public health effects of the BP oil disaster.
CEMA officials have been briefed on the planned evacuations by counterparts in the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, and the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
The Gulf states’ emergency planners stressed to their California counterparts that they are dealing with a disaster of unprecedented proportions and that contingency plans are being constantly updated and revised on ways to deal with the transformation of the Gulf of Mexico into a deadly “toxic soup” of oil and Corexit 9500 oil dispersants and the atmosphere into a dangerous mixture of hydrocarbon gases.
CEMA was briefed on the impending mass evacuation since California would be expected to absorb a large number of evacuees from the Gulf states. CEMA officials did not say how the state of California, which is virtually bankrupt, would pay for the influx of hundreds of thousands and perhaps greater numbers of evacuees from the Gulf coastal region.
Masden Report:
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20100628
And the Tennessee flooding was what? A mere inconvenience?
/johnny
never heard a word out of the feds on that issue did we....pos’s.....
I remember H1N1 being an emergency too.
Yep, Texas must ask for help first ... This is an important States Rights issue. And should remain as such. There is laws and protocols.
Obowma seems to think he is all powerful all knowing, and is so incompetent, he can’t even organize and oil spill cleanup effort.
And what help do you think the Texans need for a tropical storm that is hitting Mexico.
Yes. But our Dear Leader will have again protected the Little People just as He protected us all from Swine Flu.
ML/NJ
Gee, thanks Mr. President...
It is often a concern of ours here when it rains...
Planning any photo ops with Bill White to tour the wetness of the ground???
Maybe you should go to Mexico too and tour the wetness there...Get a couple of tacos, see the sights...Take about 500 staff with you so your carbon footprint digs deep into the ground and all that.../sarc
How about declaring an emergency for Americans from the phony Obama-Soreto danger?
“And the Tennessee flooding was what? A mere inconvenience?”
Tweets from FEMA region 4
Just Two Weeks Left To Register For Disaster Aid in Kentucky http://tinyurl.com/37czznr
Disaster Assistance Offices Update for Kentucky http://tinyurl.com/22tp873 #FEMA
FEMA Disaster Assistance Registration Extension Granted http://tinyurl.com/28yv2t3 #nashvilleflood #wearenashville #vol
Northwest Ohio
Region loses plea for tornado relief; FEMA denies disaster funding
http://toledoblade.com/article/20100625/NEWS16/6250345
Guns, money and lawyers? ;)
/johnny
You going to sue us if the hurricane blows some of those illegals back across the border.??
Courting the latino vote. Come on people, open your eyes! :)
If they come for Texan guns,or commandeer Texan property, and "rescue" hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in Texas, you will get to see again how Obama advances his agenda in every "crisis."
Just watch the strings attached to this federal crisis assistance.
“Time to suspend the re-election of Rick Perry (R-Texas)...”
Obama is prepared to give more financial aid to Mexico than a state like Texas (where he's been hurting the oil and space and medical industries).
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