FEMA Ice Truck Convoy Sent on Twisting, Weaklong Route to Hurricane Storage

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FEMA Ice Truck Convoy Sent on Twisting, Weeklong Route to Hurricane Storage Depot

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - About 200 tractor-trailer trucks with ice and water for victims of Hurricane Katrina took a convoluted, weeklong trip to a storage depot in Memphis, partly because of what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers called "miscommunication."

The drivers were sent to cities that didn't end up needing water or ice and were final directed to Memphis, said Corps spokesman Bob Anderson.

"They're in the right place now," Anderson said Monday. He said the problem trip may have resulted from "miscommunication, a breakdown in communication between FEMA and the Corps."

The trucks are leased by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, while the Corps is responsible for getting them to where they are needed in Mississippi and Louisiana. Memphis has a Corps storage facility where relief supplies are held before being shipped south.

[merwin]

1. You mean weeklong, not weakling, right?

[Atman]

2. Weakling was the leader.

Just thought I'd clarify.

[WhiteTara]

10. weakling = monkey boy? n/t

[blm]

3. They have GOT to be setting FEMA up for obliteration. NO ONE can be that

stupid and frivolous in an emergency.

They want FEMA destroyed so it can be privatized, just as they are decimating our military so protection can become a "service" payable at the "market rate" to whatever coalition of corporations own the personnel.

[OregonBlue]

5. It certainly is beginning to look like that. Is it possible that they

could be this inept without it being intentional?

[blm]

6. Impossible. It goes against the nature of humans to be obtuse to that

degree when there is an emergency of any magnitude, let alone one this enormous.

[Lorien]

9. Who is Noone?

n/t

[blm]

11. heheh...no one

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[Connie_Corleone]

4. How in the world???

The screwups are so unbelievable.

[Pirate Smile]

7. "No one went without water because of the mix-up, Anderson said."

Bullshit! Have these people watched the news within the past couple of weeks? In NOLA and Mississippi they both desperately needed water and ice.

[AlCzervik]

8. FEMA and the corps don't have satellite phones and GPS unit?

I swear to god sometimes it seems like these fuck ups aren't accidents.

[sandnsea]

13. LANG satellite phones in Iraq

I read that a few days ago. Regardless, head south and don't stop until you get to a stretch of 2x4's scattered for 50 miles. How hard is that. I don't think I could have tootled around the countryside without telling a superior to go fuck themselves and just heading south.

[pushycat]

12. Breakdown in communication btwn FEMA and Corps

Mr. Bob Anderson doesn't elaborate on the miscommunication. As if it were to be expected, instead of WHO issued orders at FEMA to whom in the CORPS. The Superdome !! WHY

Not buying the incidental bungling shit

[Gin]

14. "No one in the convoy" went without water....folks in distress from

the hurricane were thirsty as hell.............I agree they are MIHOP to privatize FEMA...no organization makes such stupid mistakes so many times.