On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 12:34:01 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/4/2017 11:10 AM, wrote:

Harree, you have acquired an impressive knowledge of post-disaster
logistics in an amazingly short period of time. You should take some
of those new found skills on to the next available flight to Puerto
Rico and put them to work where they are needed. Since Trump can't do
it all by himself, you and he could work together to fix this mess.


It wouldn't be appreciated by us though. We don't understand the
concept of a fluid situation, remember?

Got a big chuckle out of that one.


Part of the problem is FEMA and the feds are looking at this as a big
problem instead of understanding it is just a bunch of little problems
that need to be fixed one at a time. This is where they really need
more help from the local government and that seems to be totally
disfunctional. The San Juan mayor is a big part of the problem. She is
on TV more than she is working on the problems. It was widely reported
that she was not even showing up at the meetings with FEMA and the
other recovery agencies but she certainly has plenty to say about how
bad they are.

The first thing you saw in Texas and Florida was that the local people
and local first responders were in there helping their neighbors, long
before the feds showed up. We are still waiting for FEMA here. They
will just be throwing money at for the most part anyway. The counties
and cities are doing the contracting for debris removal, paying the
contractors and waiting for the feds to reimburse them.
The other issue we have here is housing. FEMA is supposed to show up
with trailers for the people who are still out of their homes but so
far they have not even decided where the trailers will go. We really
do not want another trailer slum like we had after Charley. The
problem was the temporarily displaced folks moved out fairly fast but
we had a hard core group of people who may have been virtually
homeless before the storm anyway and they turned the FEMA trailer park
into a combat zone where a big chunk of the crime in Charlotte County
was occurring. (rapes, murders, thefts etc). It took years to get them
out.