Wednesday, September 28, 2005

The Latest FEMA "failures"-Superglued on Stupid

I watched Gibson on "My Word" tonight and was absolutely flabbergasted at the new FEMA failures Mr. Gibson found. Complaint: only 37,000 homeowners have received aid from FEMA after Rita. Gosh, and they have had 4 whole days to get everyone, if they could find them. Given the devestation and flooding and time, I'm surprised that they have done as many as 37,000. Just what does Gibson want, 500,000 FEMA check writers dropping in by parachute as the storm moves on?

Gibson also parrotted the complaints from the mayor of Port Arthur that FEMA hasn't restored electricity and people who stayed there are living like cavemen. No power, no water, going outside to use toilets. It wan't long ago that the streets of that town were flooded and impassable, what the heck does he expect? Do Mr. Gibson and the Mayor believe that FEMA restores the electrial grid? And here all along I thought the power companies did that, and thought they were damned efficient at doing it. Also, I've seen no one ask the mayor why crtical city infrastructure like wastewater plants and drinking water plants do not have emergency generators installed for power outages. If you use an aeration basin for sewage and lose power to your blowers, you have about 12 hours before the whole basin goes anaerobic and the bugs die. You then get to spend about three months getting the basin re-established. What do those folks do when they lose power in a thunderstorm or lose a transformer, sit around and complain about the feds not bringing them a generator?

Gibson's piece is a prime example of the media stuck on stupid with superglue. They apparently can't see through the mayor using the media to amplfy his squeaking wheel attempt?

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