I really don't know the procedure for getting FEMA involved. Does it have to come from the President?
Does anyone here know the rules? It would seem to me that FEMA can't just show up somewhere without orders/permission to do so from someone.
I really don’t know the procedure for getting FEMA involved. Does it have to come from the President?
That was actually the problem with Katrina. Aid was sitting on Louisiana borders, waiting. Ice trucks, food, medical supplies, etc. The dems strategized the response. IIRC, Blanco was ready to let aid in until the DNC talked to her. For his part, Nagin sent his family to the Caribbean someplace. Well paid off, weren’t they. And people died as a result. Of course, as Emmanuel said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
I think the governor of a state must request assistance.