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>FEMA cuts probably means these poor people will live through what Puerto Rico did when the island was wiped out years ago by that hurricane :( Why didn't a we

>FEMA cuts probably means these poor people will live through what Puerto Rico did when the island was wiped out years ago by that hurricane :( Why didn't a well-funded FEMA prevent what happened in Puerto Rico?

harimau777 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Maria#Criticism_of_U.S._government_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Maria#Criticism_of_U...
- HideousKojima 1y ago
  Doesn't cover the internal incompetence within FEMA (despite significant funding) nearly enough: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628861808/fema-report-acknowledges-failures-in-puerto-rico-disaster-response https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628861808/fema-report-acknowl...
viraptor 1y ago
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/fema-report-acknowledges-failures-in-puerto-rico-disaster-response/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/fema-report-ackno... has a summary
- HideousKojima 1y ago
  >The FEMA report found that its warehouse in Puerto Rico was nearly empty when Hurricane Maria hit last September, without cots or tarps, and very low levels of food and water, as most of the supplies had been rerouted to the U.S. Virgin Islands following Hurricane Irma. Yeah, so how did a massive agency with plenty of money (over $30 BILLION annually) not immediately begin work to restock their Puerto Rico warehouses immediately after some of the supplies were sent to help with hurricane Irma? That's roughly $1.5 million per employee of FEMA, so they should have plenty of funds after personnel costs for buying and transporting whatever emergency supplies they need.
  - bernb 1y ago
    That's a good point. Have you tried to get an answer to that yet? For me it works out quite often to look for a reasonable explanation when something sounds unreasonable in first sight.

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>FEMA cuts probably means these poor people will live through what Puerto Rico did when the island was wiped out years ago by that hurricane :( Why didn't a we

by HideousKojima 1y ago

harimau777 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Maria#Criticism_of_U.S._government_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Maria#Criticism_of_U...
- HideousKojima 1y ago
  Doesn't cover the internal incompetence within FEMA (despite significant funding) nearly enough: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628861808/fema-report-acknowledges-failures-in-puerto-rico-disaster-response https://www.npr.org/2018/07/13/628861808/fema-report-acknowl...
viraptor 1y ago
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/fema-report-acknowledges-failures-in-puerto-rico-disaster-response/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/fema-report-ackno... has a summary
- HideousKojima 1y ago
  >The FEMA report found that its warehouse in Puerto Rico was nearly empty when Hurricane Maria hit last September, without cots or tarps, and very low levels of food and water, as most of the supplies had been rerouted to the U.S. Virgin Islands following Hurricane Irma. Yeah, so how did a massive agency with plenty of money (over $30 BILLION annually) not immediately begin work to restock their Puerto Rico warehouses immediately after some of the supplies were sent to help with hurricane Irma? That's roughly $1.5 million per employee of FEMA, so they should have plenty of funds after personnel costs for buying and transporting whatever emergency supplies they need.
  - bernb 1y ago
    That's a good point. Have you tried to get an answer to that yet? For me it works out quite often to look for a reasonable explanation when something sounds unreasonable in first sight.