Posted on 11/03/2012 11:03:16 AM PDT by blueyon
FEMA's vaunted "lean forward" strategy that called for advanced staging of supplies for emergency distribution failed to live up to its billing in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
In fact, the agency appears to have been completely unprepared to distribute bottled water to Hurricane Sandy victims when the storm hit this Monday. In contrast to its stated policy, FEMA failed to have any meaningful supplies of bottled water -- or any other supplies, for that matter -- stored in nearby facilities as it had proclaimed it would on its website. This was the case despite several days advance warning of the impending storm.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Prepper’s PING!!
This is all BS have the USAF drop pallets of mres and water
to the affected area in like less than hour from Dover!
0 does not know what he is doing we can drop a tank and a full compliment of forces across the world but the local coast is too much for the Gov to handle!
Barry 0 better go down for this!
The man is incompetent!
Get the Military on this get a General to coordinate and get the job done!
This is Stupid !
“I don’t remember the union thugs in New Orleans running off the non-union utility workers from out of state either.”
The difference is that the unions in the NE are mob controlled.
The media wants to set up this story about “Obama the Hero”. So the scope of the bureaucratic bungling must be concealed to preserve the myth.
Do the 3 stooges Bloomie-Christie-obama even have a plan to relocate people out of this crisis area?
are they going to wait until the babies and elderly start dying of hypothermia, diarrhea and dehydration in those high rises and no-longer habitable suburbs?
Maybe Trump and Giuliani better start working NOW with Romney's people ...adult leadership is missing
I've field fed troops for Uncle.
It can be done. It takes time. Logistics is hard. Harder when the president is stupid and has no clue about logistics.
/johnny
Yep. Sheppard smith. And don’t forget geraldo.
I wonder if the ice is in bags and can still be given away as water on Monday? Probably not - I imagine there is some regulation that the bags are not approved drinking water storage containers.
A company I worked for, for a while had a fondness for the idea of "management by consensus". In reality, when consensus is required, it turned into a dictatorship of the most obstinate.
Sounds like the stories I read about FEMA during Katrina. Nobody making decisions.
To my knowledge Staten Island hasn’t seceded from the state of New York and therefore voted for Obama via the electoral vote process. Basic civics. I’ve said nothing about thr religion of Staten Island residents, but you’ve got a bee in your bomnet about something, though. Are you union? Is this another stupid turf thing? You guys should really try to get pasr that.
As NAACP brought 50 cases to a polling station in Houston Tx
They bought too many bullets — no money for water.
Takes time! Well you drop a platoon with the drop!
I’m sure there is a dry area some where and water is sealed!
Whats the problem!
You attitude is it cannot be done! It can be done in less than an hour! from Dover!
No wonder these people are suffering!
IT should have been done already!
I’m a vet also and know what can be done!
Mobilize now!
Where is kanya west screaming Obama hates white people
Where is kanya west screaming Obama hates white people
Where is kanya west screaming Obama hates white people
Where is kanya west screaming Obama hates white people
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