Yeah, FEMA is utterly useless and mismanaged. I don't even worry about FEMA camps and UN Blue Hats any more, because if they operate with FEMA's usual efficiency, we won't see them here for several centuries to come.
Even though I live in the "disaster area" as declared by Comrade Bidenov-Harriskiyy, I've only seen exactly ONE "disaster agency" pickup truck, and that from a state agency rather than FEMA, and it was just passing through, sight-seeing.
Meanwhile, I'm clearing out fridge and freezers of destroyed grub meant to get us through the winter, and scrambling to figure out how to re-fill them.
In the same vein, British pensioners are currently trying to figure out whether they will eat or heat through the coming winter for much the same reasons - government coffers have been emptied to make sure the purely internal Russian Civil War can remain ongoing, and the pensioners are left holding the bag, staring into empty money pits.
Things are tough all over... while Comrades Starmer and Bidenov-Harriskiyy live large off the fat of the land at everyone else's expense. What the hell do they care? It ain't THEM under the gun!
Yet.
I can't help but notice that most of the comments above are dead-on the money - the area devastated is a huge Trump-supporter area, and we've been left for dead by the current regime to fend for our damned selves.
Things that make you go "hmmm..."...
ETA: I just made the journey out again to take another load of destroyed food to the trash dump. We don't have trash pickup here, we've either got to burn it on our own or take it to the dump. The road is mostly clear now, thanks mainly to the locals. Still a couple of trash fires smoldering where folks downstream cleared the accumulated creek trash of limbs, leaves, and whatnot that washed downstream off of their bridges and assembled it into piles for burning. I reckon some folks must still be out of power, judging by the power company trucks sitting there with flashing lights at the staging area I passed. Either they're still in recovery mode, or else they're sitting there fattening up their paychecks with fake pay chits. I dunno which, as I've not roamed the countryside yet to see how other areas are doing.
You know, after this debacle, I'd hate to be the first few tax collectors that come in here to shake down the locals so the feds can keep up the illegal aliens and the Russian Civil War in style while we sit here and get skinnier...
.
Even though I live in the "disaster area" as declared by Comrade Bidenov-Harriskiyy, I've only seen exactly ONE "disaster agency" pickup truck, and that from a state agency rather than FEMA, and it was just passing through, sight-seeing.
Meanwhile, I'm clearing out fridge and freezers of destroyed grub meant to get us through the winter, and scrambling to figure out how to re-fill them.
In the same vein, British pensioners are currently trying to figure out whether they will eat or heat through the coming winter for much the same reasons - government coffers have been emptied to make sure the purely internal Russian Civil War can remain ongoing, and the pensioners are left holding the bag, staring into empty money pits.
Things are tough all over... while Comrades Starmer and Bidenov-Harriskiyy live large off the fat of the land at everyone else's expense. What the hell do they care? It ain't THEM under the gun!
Yet.
I can't help but notice that most of the comments above are dead-on the money - the area devastated is a huge Trump-supporter area, and we've been left for dead by the current regime to fend for our damned selves.
Things that make you go "hmmm..."...
ETA: I just made the journey out again to take another load of destroyed food to the trash dump. We don't have trash pickup here, we've either got to burn it on our own or take it to the dump. The road is mostly clear now, thanks mainly to the locals. Still a couple of trash fires smoldering where folks downstream cleared the accumulated creek trash of limbs, leaves, and whatnot that washed downstream off of their bridges and assembled it into piles for burning. I reckon some folks must still be out of power, judging by the power company trucks sitting there with flashing lights at the staging area I passed. Either they're still in recovery mode, or else they're sitting there fattening up their paychecks with fake pay chits. I dunno which, as I've not roamed the countryside yet to see how other areas are doing.
You know, after this debacle, I'd hate to be the first few tax collectors that come in here to shake down the locals so the feds can keep up the illegal aliens and the Russian Civil War in style while we sit here and get skinnier...
.