*The current Administration? Why no!
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/02/1202debris.html
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
SMITH POINT — A 30-mile scar of debris along the Texas coast stands as a festering testament to what state and local officials say is FEMA's sluggish response to the 2008 hurricane season. (((Okay, great, blame the feds, but what about the next storm surge?)))
Two and a half months after Hurricane Ike blasted the shoreline, alligators and snakes crawl over vast piles of shattered building materials, lawn furniture, trees, boats, tanks of butane and other hazardous substances, thousands of animal carcasses, and perhaps even the corpses of people killed by the storm. (((Can anyone wonder why I blogged this?)))
State and local officials complain that the removal of the filth has gone almost nowhere because FEMA red tape has held up the cleanup work and the release of the millions of dollars that Chambers County says it needs to pay for the project.
Elsewhere along the coast, similar complaints are heard: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been slow to reimburse local governments for what they have already spent, putting the rural counties on the brink of financial collapse.
"I don't know all the internal workings of FEMA. But if they've had a lot of experience in hurricanes and disaster, it looks like they could come up with some kind of process that would work," said Chambers County Judge Jimmy Sylvia, the county's chief administrator. (((And while you're at it, FEMA, how about shipping a Texas-size chunk of missing ice to the North Pole?)))
Gov. Rick Perry was so incensed at delays in sending cleanup crews to the rotting, city-size pile of waste that... (((that he denounced the hoax of global warming for, I dunno, maybe the 50th time.)))
