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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's FEMA failing again Citizens without water and food for days from Hurricane Michael
"For his part, Governor Scott seems more distant and inattentive than with last year's Hurricane Irma. His answer, "everyone just needs to help each other, right now". Resources seem to be allocated for law enforcement and power, but little else. One might ask, where are those pre-positioned supplies FEMA bragged about. Is FEMA suffering from poor resources given to the agency? And rural areas away from the coast aren't seeing any assistance. From the daily beast article again:
Word about not getting water or meals had not yet reached rural communities inundated by the hurricanes rains and storm surge. In Gadsden County, outside Tallahassee, where the storm killed four people, county commissioner Anthony Viegbesie said he had not seen a single relief agency.
This is a community that lives on agriculture. Without electricity, the wells dont work, he said. We survive primitively. "
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/14/1804277/-Trump-s-FEMA-failing-again-Citizens-without-water-and-food-for-days-from-Hurricane-Michael
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,205 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,818 posts)Ohiogal
(32,002 posts)Wasn't that Trump's rally cry all during the campaign?
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)and America is Trump, at least in (what passes for) his mind.
Everybody else is on their own. (Okay, possibly he'll take care of Ivanka.)
eleny
(46,166 posts)One of the rare times I didn't mute the tv when he was onscreen speaking and he told another lie.
malaise
(269,026 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)I wish the first one had shown some close-ups of the houses that survived. Somebody will have to figure out what works and what doesn't. This won't be the last hurricane of that strength.
Extreme weather events will become more commonplace. We failed to take action that might have kept them unusual.
Now we face the dual threat -- climate and a global assault on democracy.
malaise
(269,026 posts)Just heard that there are 40 persons missing
People want to come and salvage what they can. That's one of the reasons why they don't leave.
CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)womanofthehills
(8,712 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,818 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)Ramsey Barner
(349 posts)we're just waiting for Trump to blame all the problems on the mayor of Panama City.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Maybe the Republican governors will have some sway, but I doubt it.
FakeNoose
(32,641 posts)... when the President's own property isn't under water? I mean he can even play golf at his own golf course, so it can't be that bad.
keithbvadu2
(36,818 posts)BREAKING NEWS: Trump to travel to Florida to view Hurricane Michael damage at Mar-a-Lago
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211271994
(tis possible this may be a wee bit tongue-in-cheek)
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Are they on the ground asking questions? There are a wealth of them to be asked. Has siphoning funds for baby jails caused the slow response? How long until people are helped? How are the enforcers protecting property getting food and water? If the president is holding rallies and golfing, who is in charge here?
Reporters and anchors swarmed New Orleans after Katrina. I know that is a major US city versus a far less populated area, but has the ability of the press to cover an important story decreased this much since Katrina?
malaise
(269,026 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 14, 2018, 07:15 PM - Edit history (1)
This is slow boil anger
Omaha Steve
(99,655 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Deplorable. That's what deplorable is all about. Deplorable (R).
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
kairos12
(12,862 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)well, except for kanye.
Racerdog1
(808 posts)The orange plague is on his way Monday. Loaded with paper towels.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)The day after the hurricane hit the panhandle,
Trump said everyone in Florida is telling him he did a wonderful job handling Hurricane Michael.
Everyone.
eleny
(46,166 posts)The graph and the pie chart is 2/3 down the page...
http://www.city-data.com/city/Mexico-Beach-Florida.html
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Elections have consequences.
They will learn it the hard way, as they should.
malaise
(269,026 posts)Let him head there
vlyons
(10,252 posts)That's right. Because locking little kids in cages is much more important than providing food and water to hurricane victims. Hurricane season ain't over either. Trump admin is completely indifferent and incompetent.
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/647021316/trump-administration-transferred-9-8-million-from-fema-to-ice
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)It was right before hurricane season too.
tblue37
(65,393 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)It should all be cleaned up and returned to nature as a buffer zone for hurricanes. No building within 10 miles of the shore.
Another 30 years and it will be underwater anyway.