FEMA = Federal Emergency Management Agency. Disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery. FEMA has been mostly MIA during this disaster. People are starving, freezing, homeless and dying! what are we paying FEMA to do? Who is in charge of FEMA? Who has access to all essential emergency supplies in America? Why didn't anybody in charge consider helicopter emergency delivery method of supplies and personnel to devastated areas for immediate help? I'm holding President Obama accountable. As head he is responsible for American lives. They knew a week in advance Sandy was on the way. Which means our federal, state and local government had a week to prepare for the worst. Our federal, state and local govt should have responded with relief efforts as soon as the sun came up the next morning. Instead they were all acting like deers caught in headlights. If they can't handle the job, they should have never applied.
Emergency defined: A serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring IMMEDIATE ACTION. *NOT WE'LL GET THERE WHEN WE GET THERE ATTITUDE!!!*
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BIG Government
written by Michael Patrick Leahy
Saturday November 3, 2012
FEMA's vaunted "lean forward" strategy that called for advanced staging of supplies for emergency distribution failed to live up to its billing in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
In fact, the agency appears to have been completely unprepared to distribute bottled water to Hurricane Sandy victims when the storm hit this Monday. In contrast to its stated policy, FEMA failed to have any meaningful supplies of bottled water -- or any other supplies, for that matter -- stored in nearby facilities as it had proclaimed it would on its website. This was the case despite several days advance warning of the impending storm.
FEMA only began to solicit bids for vendors to provide bottled water for distribution to Hurricane Sandy victims on Friday, sending out a solicitation request for 2.3 million gallons of bottled water at the FedBizOpps.gov website. Bidding closed at 4:30 pm eastern.
Breitbart News spoke with contracting officer Annette Wright, who said that the winning vendor would be required to deliver the 2.3 million gallons of bottled water to an East Farmingdale, New York distribution center that was listed in the solicitation request by Monday, November 5th. Ms. Wright was unable to say when or how the water would be delivered from the distribution center to needy Hurricane Sandy victims in New Jersey, Staten Island, Long Island, and other boroughs of New York City. Vendors "are currently being evaluated," she said, and when the vendors are announced, they will provide information on how local distribution will occur.
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