Maybe Rove can configure his weather machine to produce an ice storm for them.
Uh....
Ice is not something that makes sense to truck from a central repository across the country. It’s easy to make, just apply refrigeration and power to water.
Also, this is a thinly veiled hackjob on the Ike relief efforts. Pretty stupid, especially since in Texas it’s not actually hot right now, and apparently most people desiring ice are using it to chill food they should have eaten already anyway.
When there’s no electricity ice is nice.
The same must be true now for Texas. Give each FEMA employee a large ice chest and have them fill it up before leaving their hotel on their disaster rounds, their first stop being an ice distribution point. That way Ice will be distributed to all in need.
If ice is the only problem they have, I say live with it. Water is something entirely different and anyone in hurricane areas knows it is your responsibility to buy a couple of 5 gallon cans to store an adequate supply in ... Doesn't everyone know?
And everyone knows that NO ONE lived in Texas in the 1800s prior to ice machines existing! I mean, the heat would just kil... Oh, wait, what? Really?
Never mind...
Actually, a little ice helps everyone keep their cool.
No, the article says they can not guarantee ice. It is needed for food, medicine, etc. People lived without ice well into the 20th century.
That is a truly stupid comment. Money transfers are bookkeeping, inconveniencing a small number of electrons, and a large number of taxpayers. To deliver ice requires water, refrigeration, roads, trucks, gas, manpower, and distribution points.
I live in League City. You can buy ice at the grocery store today. You could buy it yesterday in League City. If I can buy ice at the store, I don’t need FEMA to give it to me.
In fact, except in places like Galveston, things are pretty much getting back to normal. Maybe not optimum, because stores have not fully restocked and traffic lights are down, but at least livable. You can get gasoline without waiting in lines. I can make it without eggs for a few days.
We got power back yesterday evening, three days after the rest of the neighborhood. (A transformer was damaged on my block.) Neighbors let us put bags of ice in their freezer to keep our coolers chilled. The ice in our freezer had not yet melted (mainly because the wife unit had frozen a big three gallon container of water in it last Monday), so we got by.
Got any ice left over from Katrina?
What a load of crap.
It's a made-up, two-bit, liberal, hack organization, established and designed to milk every last ounce of political gain from the tragedy of others.
Give the executive director a cooler and a bicycle and have him deliver ice. Otherwise, his hot air is only making the problem worse.
Just wait until they run out of TP.
Under NIMS (National Incident Management System) local government passes on requests to regional operations for items they need that they cannot fill with local resources. Regional, in turn, passes on to state amd then state to federal. That is how it works.
God help the ignorant in this country when there’s a true emergency where Uncle Sam can’t come to the rescue.
Sarah, please put FEMA on your list.
are these people in areas where the local government wants to take the land by condemnation?
There were a few articles citing that the reason people were not being let back in was in order to condemn and demolish homes before people had a chance to return and repair before condemnation “inspections” could take place.