5,000 displaced Mississippi residents still waiting for FEMA trailers

[Contrary1]

FEMA is doing a heckuva job...passing the buck again, that is. Maybe the Freepers can donate some of their extra porta potties. What is wrong with this picture? Would it not be better for those displaced by Katrina to have outdoor "facilities", rather than remaining displaced?

And the "probing" goes on. Meanwhile, people are homeless. It boggles the mind.


"GULFPORT, Miss. - A lack of coordination among utility companies is one of the reasons why thousands of Mississippi families are still waiting for trailers more than four months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their homes, a federal official told a congressional subcommittee Saturday.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided travel trailers for around 31,000 families on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, but roughly 5,000 others are still waiting.

Nick Russo, FEMA’s coordinating officer for Mississippi, told subcommittee members that FEMA had wanted to set up a task force to coordinate the installation of electricity, water and sewer service at trailer sites and speed the work.

However, the process has been slower than anticipated because local utilities are “beyond our control,” he said..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10852865/

[merh]

1. And hurricane season is only 5 months away.

x(

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. It does boggle the mind . . .

. . . an entire coastline ravaged for miles.

Imagine what some REAL leadership could have done for those communities. All they do is pass the buck and point fingers. Katrina is a shameful, awful tragedy. And yet the media does next to nothing in the way of reporting the REAL NEWS that comes out of there. My best friend graduated from MU's School of Journalism in '83 . . . she is aghast at what has become of her profession in the last fifteen years. Whores and sycophants.

Imagine if our National Guard units were available to help a few months ago . . . instead of being blown to bits in Iraq.

Imagine no fascism.

[MnFats]

3. Bangladesh handles hurricanes better than these fools.

[SoCalDem]

oops a dupe

:(

[SoCalDem]

4. My guess would be that these are mostly poor folks??

The officials are probably just hoping these folks will give up and move along:(