FEMA Follies update
Nov. 9th, 2007 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infrogmationRemember those FEMA trailers (sent very belatedly to the Gulf Coast in lieu of more useful help) that turned out to be making people sick?
Despite some dreadful "unofficial" independent test results, FEMA has repeatedly put off or squashed any "official" tests of the trailers. I presume this is some sort of "If we can pretend we don't really know, we can't be held liable, right?"
Well, it turns out FEMA policy doesn't allow FEMA employees to enter closed up trailers, even briefly, due to the health concerns.
CBS news
NPR
Meanwhile, guess what FEMA has in mind to help some folks whose homes burned in the California fires?
Send them FEMA some trailers, of course.
Speaking of our Federal Friends, if anyone missed it, "A federal agency says there is “substantial likelihood” the Army Corps of Engineers acted improperly in handling a politically connected Florida company's $27 million flood-pump contract after Hurricane Katrina.
Despite some dreadful "unofficial" independent test results, FEMA has repeatedly put off or squashed any "official" tests of the trailers. I presume this is some sort of "If we can pretend we don't really know, we can't be held liable, right?"
Well, it turns out FEMA policy doesn't allow FEMA employees to enter closed up trailers, even briefly, due to the health concerns.
CBS news
NPR
Meanwhile, guess what FEMA has in mind to help some folks whose homes burned in the California fires?
Send them FEMA some trailers, of course.
Speaking of our Federal Friends, if anyone missed it, "A federal agency says there is “substantial likelihood” the Army Corps of Engineers acted improperly in handling a politically connected Florida company's $27 million flood-pump contract after Hurricane Katrina.
