sapphi_snake said:
Kasz216 said:
Bueracratic Red Tape... they turned awaya TON of support. Technically once Fema gets there, if you offer any help outside of them, your committing a crime I believe.
From Wiki
"FEMA was accused of deliberately slowing things down, in an effort to ensure that all assistance and relief workers were coordinated properly. For example, Michael D. Brown, the head of FEMA, on August 29, urged all fire and emergency services departments not to respond to counties and states affected by Hurricane Katrina without being requested and lawfully dispatched by state and local authorities under mutual aid agreements and the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.[27]
FEMA also interfered in the Astor Hotel's' plans to hire 10 buses to carry approximately 500 guests to higher ground. Federal officials commandeered the buses, and told the guests to join thousands of other evacuees at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.[28] In other instances of FEMA asserting its authority to only ultimately make things worse, FEMA officials turned away three Wal-Mart trailer trucks loaded with water, prevented the Coast Guard from delivering 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel, and on Saturday they cut the Jefferson Parish emergency communications line, leading the sheriff to restore it and post armed guards to protect it from FEMA.[29] The Wal-Mart delivery had actually been turned away a week earlier, on Sunday, August 28, before the hurricane struck. A caravan of 13 Wal-Mart tractor trailers was reported in New Orleans by September 1.[30] Additionally, more than 50 civilian aircraft responding to separate requests for evacuations from hospitals and other agencies swarmed to the area a day after Katrina hit, but FEMA blocked their efforts. Aircraft operators complained that FEMA waved off a number of evacuation attempts, saying the rescuers were not authorized. "Many planes and helicopters simply sat idle," said Thomas Judge, president of the Assn. of Air Medical Services.[31]" "
After The BP spill they banned a bunch off the oil skimming boats that were available and could of removed oil from the water because the boats didn't remove ENOUGH Oil. It didn't matter that it would of removed more oil faster and lessened the enviromental harm. Because they didn't remove enough oil they would techinically breaking the law because the water they would be putting back in the ocean would of broke the law because by putting the water back in.... they would be guilty of "polluting" according to EPA regulations.
Rescue boats too were a problem.
http://bpoilspillcomp.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/boats-created-to-help-gulf-wildlife-turned-away-find-out-why/
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The fact that the part I bolded, underlined and put in italics had to happen is grousome. Why would they turn down free help? I cannot believe something like this would seriously happen. There have to be some serious reformes done to this FEMA thing.
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You think that's bad? Try this line....
"A September 16, 2005 CNN article about Chalmette Medical Center stated, "Doctors eager to help sick and injured evacuees were handed mops by federal officials who expressed concern about legal liability... And so they mopped, while people died around them."[35]"
Why did they turn down free help?
Because when Fema takes over... there is no room for private help anymore... that's how government works.
All aid must go through Fema first... and if Fema either doesn't want it, or can't process all the help, or it doesn't fit the stupidly narrow and percise government guidelines... it gets delayed, or turned away.
