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FEMA Out of Water, No Delivery Until Monday
Breitbart ^ | Nov 3, 2012 | Michael Patrick Leahy

Posted on 11/03/2012 11:03:16 AM PDT by blueyon

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To: blueyon

So FEMA is out of water for Hurricane Sandy victims until Monday, and yet the MSM chastised Romney for collecting water, food and clothes. Exactly when will the media realize their stupidity is actually hurting the American people?


161 posted on 11/03/2012 1:51:07 PM PDT by xuberalles ("The Right Stuff" Conservative Novelties http://www.zazzle.com/xuberalles)
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To: dirtboy
Yep. They are used to large-scale planning and logistics into difficult terrain and situations. Like a region that just got hit by a hurricane.

Plus it would be valuable and realistic training for the logistics and support units: "go to location X, and set up mobile water purification, field kitchen, etc. Let's see how fast you can get there and be ready to feed and give water to people".

Plus a week-long inside-US cross-country deployment would test the soldiers child-care arrangements, which always seems to result in a bunch of troops (mostly single moms) declaring they are unable to go whenever a sudden overseas deployment is called.

162 posted on 11/03/2012 1:51:29 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (political correctness is communist thought control, disguised as good manners)
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To: PA Engineer

Amen!
LLS


163 posted on 11/03/2012 1:52:32 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (OUR GOVERNMENT AND PRESS ARE NO LONGER TRUSTWORTHY OR DESERVING OF RESPECT!)
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To: blueyon

The hated Wal-Mart (at least in the liberal bastions of the Northeast) would have had plenty of bottled water and other supplies on hand for the storm. But no!


164 posted on 11/03/2012 1:54:22 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: LibLieSlayer

I’m thinking typhus, not cholera. Not down the shore but in NYC.

Fed gov really doesn’t know what it’s doing, even in REactive mode, never mind PROactive.

I pray that people in neighboring states who can do so, will drive over there with a few jerries of fuel, some water and blankets, diapers and formula, batteries and some basic chow. They’re 100 per cent certain to find someone grateful beyond words to express.

Take it from me, I’ve been there, lost everything, plus three close family members, in a catastrophe: the government doesn’t make it better, they make it worse. Insofar as anything takes away an iota of anguish, it’s not an official, it’s an individual who doesn’t know you, didn’t have to come, doesn’t expect a reward or a refund - but who showed up and did what he could - that’s what Heaven sends to the afflicted.


165 posted on 11/03/2012 1:56:36 PM PDT by HomeAtLast (Please proceed, Governor. To the White House.)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

Where’s Geraldo? Where’s Shep? Fox News had no problem at all with them being on-hand reporting the misery during Katrina. Surely they ought to be out in Staten Island or somewhere near to bring the real truth of what’s happening in those areas.


166 posted on 11/03/2012 2:06:45 PM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: GeronL

I live near I-95 in MD. I bet I’ve seen 20 semi’s loaded with commercial generators heading north in the last week. To deploy only 4 is un-thnkable, but perfectly acceptable to a liberal bureauocrat


167 posted on 11/03/2012 2:07:15 PM PDT by cyclotic ( Obama's golden halo is really just a rusted hubcap)
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To: Mean Maryjean
Where’s Geraldo?

Desperately searching for a generator so the fish in his koi pond don't die.

I'm not kidding.

168 posted on 11/03/2012 2:10:55 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: blueyon

Earllier today, I posted this reply on another thread. It is even more appropriate for your thread.

We have friends and relatives with friends/relatives, who survived Sandy. They started getting into contact with those living in the Post Sandy areas recently.

Like many heavy duty storms, people a couple of miles away from each other have totally different realities.

Some had minor flooding or car damage, others have lost their homes, can’t get into their homes. Many are out of food, water, dry clothes and gas for their vehicles or generators.

Some areas are out of control with mobs looting and survivors looking for food/water and shelter. After dark some in that area are hearing shouts and shots being fired near their damaged homes.

One lady has friends and relatives on both sides suffering from severe disaster or no problem. However, some who thought they were okay are now running into problems. One of her uncles is very well off. His beach area house now has severe water in the basement and there is no electricity to run the sump pumps. His small yacht in the same area is okay and undamaged. They have a large home,they live in away from the shore, and they have had no power since Sandy hit. He had generators which are now out of gasoline, and he has siphoned the gas from his small collection of cars and trucks. Now, the sump pumps in that home aren’t working and water is seeping in their big basement a few inches each hour. Their food drinking water supply is running out as they became an emergency shelter for grown children and grand kids.

This may end up with Katrina looking like a medium size disaster versus a king size disaster from Sandy.


169 posted on 11/03/2012 2:11:17 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are the 53%, who pay taxes and keep this country going inspite of the 47% rat moochers!)
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To: cyclotic

Yep.

I totally agree.


170 posted on 11/03/2012 2:13:13 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: HomeAtLast

I have been through every major hurricane since Betsy in 1965. I know the pain and loss that you speak of... Katrina took three homes from my family... and two businesses. I had three families living with us afterwards. I will send help in donations as soon as the fog clears. GOD bless the good people that help now!

LLS


171 posted on 11/03/2012 2:13:20 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (OUR GOVERNMENT AND PRESS ARE NO LONGER TRUSTWORTHY OR DESERVING OF RESPECT!)
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To: dirtboy

They would have been better off staging water purification machines like the military uses.

I guess its not as good for photo-ops


172 posted on 11/03/2012 2:14:21 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Mean Maryjean

neil Cavuto has been on both Fox News and the Fox Business Channel with superb reporting.

He has the power and influence to muster the FoxNews troops and send them for indepth coverage of the disaster that is Staten island. his report yesterday afternoon lasted a full hour

Shep was determined to be not mentally suitable to handle the rigor and stress of disaster reporting from the field. the real men at fox are out there telling it like it is.


173 posted on 11/03/2012 2:16:25 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: blueyon

Gee, imagine if this had been a Cat 5 hurricane.

Obama’s Katrina!


174 posted on 11/03/2012 2:16:35 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: SamAdams76

“The hated Wal-Mart (at least in the liberal bastions of the Northeast) would have had plenty of bottled water and other supplies on hand for the storm. But no!”

The boutique loving lefties hate Walmart, Home Depot and Lowes.

So when disaster strikes and there is no Walmart, Home Depot or Lowes, they suffer a lot worse than we country bumpkins with several Walmarts, Home Depots and Lowes in a close radius from our homes.


175 posted on 11/03/2012 2:16:56 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are the 53%, who pay taxes and keep this country going inspite of the 47% rat moochers!)
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To: blueyon
I'm sure the state contolled media will be all over this, just like Benghazi.

I crack me up.

5.56mm

176 posted on 11/03/2012 2:18:36 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe
contolled=controlled

Spell check is your friend.

5.56mm

177 posted on 11/03/2012 2:19:39 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: GeronL

“How much is the FEMA budget that they don’t have MRE’s and water on hand?”

I guess they spent all their money on millions of rounds of ammo!


178 posted on 11/03/2012 2:22:03 PM PDT by toomanylaws
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To: blueyon

Why does Rasmussen show them dead even? Jerry Lee Lewis with clap ought to be able to beat this guy.


179 posted on 11/03/2012 2:27:58 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

“they could strain pond water through cloth and add 1/4 tsp bleach per gallon. It won’t be delicious and it sure ain’t perrier, but it’s better than dying of thirst.”

Interesting that you cite the 1/4 tsp of bleach per gallon.

My wife has been a nurse for a long time, and she brought this formula up in discussions with a couple of friends who have loved ones back in the aftermath of Sandy.

She told them to strain the water through a pillow case or any cloth lining metal/ lining plastic strainers into a gallon container with the 1/4 tsp of bleach.

Then, when you want drinking water, pour the treated water into a Brita Filter container or similiar filter system to get rid of the chlorine taste.

Use the treated strained water for sponge baths and other actions needing germ free water.


180 posted on 11/03/2012 2:28:06 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are the 53%, who pay taxes and keep this country going inspite of the 47% rat moochers!)
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