Hurricane IKE (east TX) what the media did not show you

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85 billion for AIG but hurricane victims cant get ice?

FEMA Says No to Ice For Hurricane Survivors
Under New Policy, FEMA Says Ice is Not Its Responsibility
By MEGAN CHUCHMACH
September 18, 2008



Hurricane survivors are being put at risk in Texas and other hot weather states because the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is no longer providing ice in relief situations, say watchdogs, relief workers and local leaders in Hurricane Alley..

Sept. 16, 2008.


Hurricane survivors are being put at risk in Texas and other hot weather states because the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is no longer providing ice in relief situations, say watchdogs, relief workers and local leaders in Hurricane Alley..


"It's frustrating that the government can deliver $85 billion to bail out AIG, and they can't deliver ice in Texas," said Ben Smilowitz, executive director of the Disaster Accountability Project (DAP), a nonpartisan organization that monitors the nation's disaster response system..

In fact, while the federal government can deliver ice to disaster areas, it's chosen not to, under newly-revised FEMA rules. Instead, individual states and local governments are now tasked with purchasing, delivering and storing ice, even though they face tough logistical challenges in doing so, according to critics of the new policy..

"FEMA is effectively saying we can't guarantee you ice," said Mike Womack, director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency..

Besides preserving food when electricity is out, ice is essential in maintaining temperature-sensitive medication and feeding formulas and keeping people cool in the aftermath of disaster, relief and support workers say..

"This isn't for their gin and tonics," said Elise Hough, CEO of the Houston chapter of United Cerebral Palsy, who says she encountered a lot of indifference when she started raising the issue of FEMA's ice policy last month. "This is for people who are extremely sensitive to heat, and ice has a huge impact on their health and safety.."

FEMA says it instituted its new policy in July 2007, although those in disaster relief circles widely point to the National Hurricane Conference in Florida in April as the announcement of the change..

There, FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison told attendees that the agency would stop providing ice to disaster victims, except in the case of medical emergencies or life-threatening situations, according to media reports at the time..

That's the first time, support workers, watchdogs and local officials say they heard about the policy change, just as hurricane season was beginning. Since then, many say, they've had no direction or guidance as to what the new procedures entail..

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I find this outrageous. The move itself is outrageous. The fact that this was not covered by media is even more outrageous.

Of course, I did saw Bush on TV saying how they going to restore and all that. But, New Orleans is still not restored. Florida City is still not restored, and that got hit back in 1994ish.

Actions speak louder than words, don't they?
 

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This is not important at all. What's funny to me is the bj's are overrated thread got more replies than this. It's sad how dumb Americans have become. Oh I also wouldn't be surprised if my post gets deleted either.
 

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SuavePlaya said:
This is not important at all. What's funny to me is the bj's are overrated thread got more replies than this. It's sad how dumb Americans have become. Oh I also wouldn't be surprised if my post gets deleted either.

I see your point my friend. Important things are the popular things. Right things are also popular. Truth is whatever the masses believe. If only one person believes something to be true, he is ****ing wrong!

This is how our world judges the importance of things. I'm not being sarcastic, no, this is actuality. Popular things get the most attention and thus are the most important. In other words Janet Jackson titie on national TV was very popular, while hundreds of dead Iraqi children wasn't popular at all. Thus titie on TV is more important than a bunch of dead kids.

Of course! Your post should not be deleted. Because you demonstrate thought process of an average American citizen who would go with anything government supports, just because he or she is patriotic. I.E. BLIND. http://i.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/elpintogrande~04-07-2006-moran.jpg

This is also the point where men would pay for girl's dinner after she orders the most expensive item, rather than make a scene and make her pay half. The latter is although right, it is not popular.

This my friends, is called herd mentality.

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"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it."
-Ghandi
 

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apusislaya said:
The fact that this was not covered by media is even more outrageous.
Uh, pardon me. Type "FEMA Says No to Ice For Hurricane Survivors" (with quotes) into Google and the first entry on the first page is ABC News. The Associated Press also wired a story authored by Pauline Arrillaga and Eileen Sullivan which were reported by CBS, MSNBC, and FOX News. For your interests, the article polemically commences "Hurricane Katrina made them worthless feds in windbreakers, a four-letter agency for which some couldn't find enough four-letter words. And in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, FEMA is again the easy target for displaced residents and frustrated local authorities."

But, I would otherwise agree with your assessment of the quality of journalism, although probably for different reasons than your own. Journalism is inherently front-end loaded, meaning that journalists take interest in what will happen, what is happening, but its interest drops through the floor after the fact. We frequently hear about "developing stories" but very rarely does the media conduct follow-up stories. Journalism is more interested in the anticipatory excitement of the possibility of mass death and destruction of a hurricane, along with the agonizing dramatic marathon of watching hurricane swath projections, along with the reporters comically going outside to get pelted with rain and wind just to tell you not to go outside, than of interest in the realized outcome.
 

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You picked one thing and tried to make my post crumble.
Apusislaya, I picked out one thing to critique as a minor point and then focused the majority of my time on agreeing with you albeit on different terms. It was not my intention in this thread to "crumble" your post. Even though I myself did not pay much attention to the news coverage, actually none at all, if you contend the media attention was lackluster then I will take your statement.

The reason why FEMA decided to rely upon state and local government to provide ice was probably due to budget cuts. For the past two and a half years I have worked for state government in social services and whenever it comes to spending money on our citizens, whether social services, emergency services, etc., money is always difficult to come by, whether local, state, or federal. "Everyone" knows governments are poor and strapped for cash and I would think it's for this deep-seated reason why people many people withhold their "outrage" for outrageous cutbacks—because we know government, generally speaking, tries doing its best with the limited resources available. Now, one might argue emergency services on a national level needs greater funding, a reasonable argument, but then we delve into complicated policy issues over funding priorities.
 
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