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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- | |
| FEMA moving money around to pay for Hurricane Irene | |
| 2011-08-28 | |
| With less than $1 billion currently available for federal disaster assistance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is temporarily suspending payments to rebuild roads, schools and other structures destroyed during spring tornadoes in Joplin, Mo. and southern states in order to pay for damage caused by Hurricane Irene. FEMA is placing restrictions on paying for longer-term repair, rebuilding and mitigation projects from previous natural disasters in order to ensure the solvency of the federal disaster relief fund, which pays for emergency management costs and public rebuilding projects, the agency said. The decision will impact the spring tornadoes and disasters dating back several years. The federal government similarly suspended some disaster payments in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2010, according to FEMA.
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| #4 NOT-CARL-SAGAN BILYUHNS + TRILYUHNS + ????YUHNS OF FEMA FUNDS + [btw]QE3? .... versus * FREEREPUBLIC > AFTER IRENE: LITTLE DAMAGE SEEN IN MANY PLACES. ARTIC = FEAR NOTETH, FED RESERVE, ITS NOT TUEDAY OR WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY, AS APPAREN "THE RIVER [doth]HASN'T CRESTED YET"??? D. MIDNIGHT RUNNERS = "THERE GOES IRENE ...". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-28 23:38 |
| #3 None. I'd say get in line. We are from the government and we are here to help. Greensburg waited nearly 3 years to get a hospital built; construction started. Joplin had a big box conversion into a school in a matter of months, shows what waiting around for fed assistance is. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-08-28 13:47 |
| #2 Where were the presidential visits of concern for the Nashville, Iowa and the Missouri river floods? |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2011-08-28 13:43 |
| #1 So this is normal, fiscally prudent behavior. Good for them, if more difficult for the people who were expecting more government help. I'm going to respectfully disagree here, although the lack of available money is a factor. I am simply wondering how many of those programs would have been suspended if they were in CA, MA, or NY. If programs in those states had been at risk, you would have seen Congress tripping all over itself to find the money somewhere. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2011-08-28 11:43 |