AP -FEMA Says Ark. to Keep Half of Trailers

[rodeodance]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5833281,00.html

FEMA Says Ark. to Keep Half of Trailers


Friday May 19, 2006 11:31 PM

AP Photo ARDJ201

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government has no plans to move at least half of the 10,000 emergency housing trailers sitting empty in Hope, Ark., saying they may be needed for the 2006 hurricane season.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency detailed its plan to keep the trailers at the Hope municipal airport in a letter to Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., who had asked that some of the trailers be used for American Indian housing.

The letter did not mention Johnson's request, but FEMA spokesman Aaron Walker said Friday that federal law says the trailers must be used for disaster victims.

The trailers originally were purchased to house people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But FEMA officials later said that regulations against placing the homes in flood plains prevented their use on the Gulf Coast.

[superconnected]

1. so people are homeless and fema won't place the trailers on the

gulf coast, or give them to the indians, and it may use them for another disaster.

Somehow I doubt they'll get used becuase they didn't use them for the last disaster.

How ineffecient can fema get.

[NV Whino]

2. This one truly boggles the mind.

Perhaps the answer is for the hurricane victims to move to the airport at Hope Ark and call it Nuevo New Orleans.

[uppityperson]

3. So when the trailers placed last yr are destroyed this yr, they can be rep

they can be replaced? Aha. See hurrican survivors, you don't have to worry! If your FEMAmansion is destroyed, they'll just give you a new one. Maybe :sarcasm:

This line from the article really gets me "``It's clear that they overpurchased for Katrina,'' Johnson said. ``These trailers are going to be wasted resources.''"

[spacelady]

4. Believe me, if these trailers sat dormant in Arkansas for all this time

they are musty and moldy and unfit for habitation.
Total waste.

[oscar111]

5. So bus refugees to arkansas, clean out the mold, and problems

are solved. Those folks deserve much more, but this is a start.

they deserve compensation for the Superdome suffering... a million each, at the least.

[lyonn]

6. Once again the Guardian has better U.S.A. news

covering us than our media does. Went to the Guardian site and saw several news article of real interest.

This trailer situation is so stupid and incompetent that I am embarrassed that the British even knows about it.

[Kenergy]

7. Our tax dollars being put to good use I see

Perhaps they can be used to put "detainees" in.

Another Bush administration fuck up.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

8. Bureaucracy inaction.

"...regulations against placing the homes in flood plains prevented their use on the Gulf Coast."

So...good ol' Georgie Boy couldn't cut through the red tape between FEMA and Homeland Security and Congress? I thought he was "The Decider!"

So no one in "our" government realized that either 1) there were regulations against putting the trailers in a flood plain, and ordered them, or 2) they knew about the regs but didn't realize that the whole area pretty much defines the term "flood plain?" When DID they find out about this little problem? After they ordered 10,000; after they were delivered to the staging areas? And what did they do to fix this problem - I'd guess Trent Lott might have been a little help, since he lost ONE of his homes and would like to be re-elected and all.

Any one here imagine what would happen if President Clinton had been told that they couldn't use the trailers because of these regulations? He would have been on the phone and sending his staff out to get those "regulations" suspended, rather than letting them just sit there.

So THESE regulations are sacrosanct, but the Bill of Rights...not so much. And fuck the FISA courts - these are REGULATIONS we're talking about, not, you know, FEDERAL LAW and our system of checks and balances that USED keep our nation safe from tyranny.

[MGKrebs]

10. Yeah, where's the presidential "finding" on this one?

He claims to be able to ignore every other friggin regulation out there but this one?
No "national emergency" exception?

[prole_for_peace]

12. did they not know that

NO is UNDER SEA LEVEL??!!! asses...

[dbt]

9. Once Again, Arkansas Bears Witness.

Once again, we are the dumping ground of government waste and malevolence. The Regime gets all these trailers so agonizingly close to our neighbors who desperately need them--then leaves them to rot in

A Place Called Hope.

:grr:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

ECHELON CARNIVORE TAP THIS

[saigon68]

11. The repukes hate black people

"Let them starve," is the white rich man's "Battle Cry"

Except for this creature who works in the house of the man.