Am sure you are right re: the state government agencies. What is the Oregon state government like? Liberal dominated?
Once again, then, President Bush will be blamed if help doesn’t arrive soon.
Hopefully the bureaucratic wonks and wonkettes in the Federal emergency agencies can get off their collective duffs and start getting emergency help to this region - NOW.
America always helps its own who are in distress. I think people just do know understand the magnitude of the damage/danger there now.
Large numbers of us live in areas where we fully understand that in winter it gets cold and snow falls. Sometimes a lot of it. This is not anything that far out of the ordinary, except for ill-prepared political idiots who think that global warming means now.
They'll survive, maybe update their thinking about ecotopia.