So is that why the FEMA Twinkies-on-scene turned back a flotilla of 500 Gulf boaters who were trailering their vessels to NO to do rescues?
>>> "So is that why the FEMA Twinkies-on-scene turned back a flotilla of 500 Gulf boaters who were trailering their vessels to NO to do rescues?"<<<
When and where did this happen? Do you have a link?
>> So is that why the FEMA Twinkies-on-scene turned back a flotilla of 500 Gulf boaters who were trailering their vessels to NO to do rescues? <<
BTW, Arizona, I read on another thread that the person who turned back the "flotilla" was a LA Department of Wildlife and Fisheries employee. A letter to editor of the Lake Charles American Press stated:
"We then specifically asked the DWF agent that we (and other citizens in the flotillia) be allowed to go to the hospitals and help evacuate the sick and the doctors and nurses stranded there. We offered to bring these people back to Lafayette, in our own vehicles, in order to ensure that they received proper and prompt medical care
The DWF agent did not want to hear this and ordered us home. We complied with the DWF agent's orders, turned around and headed back to Lafayette along with half of the flotillia. However, two of my friends were pulling my other boat, a smaller 15ft alumaweld with a 25 hp. The DWF agents let them through to proceed to the rescue operation launch site," the email continued."
A Lafayette, Louisiana attorney by the name of Jason Robideaux wrote that letter to the editor reporting that he was part of a group of 1,000 men who were pulling 500 boats to New Orleas to aid in the rescue when an agent with the Louisiana State Deptment of Wildlife and Fisheries turned away about one-half the boats because they were too long and the agency had "things under control"
I thought you might be interested. The thread is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1480639/posts