FEMA blocking trucks with food and water from getting into NO

[bobbieinok]

story about Food Not Bombs talking to them.....with pcitures

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050912095622250

(this was reported 9-12; don't know if situation has improved)

Monday, September 12 2005 @ 09:56 AM PDT
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Food Not Bombs volunteers from Prescott and Tucson serve their first meals to a group of FEMA-contracted truckers and refugees at the Baton Rouge convention center.

Arizona Food Not Bombs shares food with truckers, evacuees
by Emrys Monday, Sep. 12, 2005 New Orleans Indymedia http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/5085.php

After receiving word that over 100 truckers were sitting in a Target parking lot in east Baton Rouge, the AZ Food Not Bombs mobile kitchen showed up with several pots of beans, chili and rice.

We spent a couple hours talking with the semi drivers, who were operating under FEMA to bring water and food into New Orleans – but, as we saw, all were just sitting in the parking lot waiting for directions. Some had been there for days, some for more than a week, without any food or supplies from the government or any other relief agencies.

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Many shared stories of frustration with the bureaucracy of the federal government and FEMA. Dozens of tanker trucks carrying 50,000 gallons of water each were parked in rows, awaiting orders to travel into affected areas and fill up 10-gallon jugs to hand out. Only a few trucks at a time are allowed in, and it takes nearly 24 hours to empty a tanker, leaving the majority of them sitting around doing absolutely nothing.

“They’ve got their thumbs up their asses,” said one driver talking about the incompetence of FEMA.

more....

[gumby]

1. These continuing stories are incomprehensible.

One group of independent relief workers supplies aid to the hundreds of other relief truckers who aren't able to deliver their relief goods?

What The Hell? What IS going on here?

[bobbieinok]

2. kick for Thursday afternoon