FEMA Pays to Clear Waterways of Debris From Katrina, Not Gustav (NOLA)

[MountainLaurel]

In the more than three years since Hurricane Katrina, a scattered mess of storm-tossed washers, dryers and refrigerators is still lurking in the waters of Grand Isle's Caminada Pass.

A few miles away, the 90-foot shrimp boat Saint Anthony is trapped amid piles of rocks, ripped from its moorings and deposited in a channel by Hurricane Gustav.

After a year's worth of extensive government surveys to pinpoint marine debris in Grand Isle and across the state, FEMA will pay for the appliances to be removed by next summer. The fate of the marooned shrimp boat is less certain.

Under an agreement inked between FEMA and the Coast Guard last fall, the federal government would pay to remove remnants of houses, cars and boats still littering hundreds of miles of state waterways after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But as the cleanup now begins, the state is being told that additional underwater debris from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike will not be included in that project.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/fema_pays_to_clean_waterways_o.html

Just another indication of what a joke FEMA is. :wtf:

[ColbertWatcher]

1. "Just another indication of what a joke FEMA is." No, that's an indication what a joke the GOP is.

This is a perfect example of how poorly the GOP governs.

The GOP's goal is to make government smaller and weaker than corporations.

The GOP did to FEMA what it's doing to the FDA, the fucking Post Office, the DoJ, every branch of the military and Medicare. Good thing they were stopped from destroying Social Security.

[MountainLaurel]

2. Good point

You can bet your ass that Katrina would have turned out differently had Bush not destroyed FEMA by putting it in Homeland Security and making its mission response to terrorism instead of natural disasters.