ARE they still shipping that ICE to Mass. or Maine?

[gasperc]

someone needs to seriously go to jail, it still hasn't been shipped from AL so if it isn't on it's way to TEXAS this is NUTS, typical for the BUSH admin. but fucking NUTS


<snip> from LA TIMES
Ice Shipments Diverted From Gulf Coast
By CLARKE CANFIELD, Associated Press Writer


PORTLAND, Maine -- Trucks loaded with millions of pounds of ice destined for the hurricane-damaged Gulf Coast have been diverted to storage facilities across the nation after the federal government ordered too much.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered 180 million pounds of ice delivered to staging areas in the South. But the agency ended up with more than it could use, forcing officials to send the shipments to freezers.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. What, who where??

[babylonsister]

4. I posted this yesterday:

Gloucester (MA) Daily Times: "Frozen FEMA Fiasco" (Unreal!)
Edited on Tue Sep-20-05 12:08 PM by babylonsister

http://www.gloucestertimes.com /
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Edit to fix link...

Frozen FEMA fiasco: Truckers stuck with ice meant for Gulf Coast

Hundreds of thousands of pounds of ice meant for the Gulf Coast arrived yesterday not in storm-ravaged New Orleans or Mississippi but in Gloucester, where almost two dozen tractor-trailers spent the day parked on Rogers Street with their engines running.

Hundreds of truck drivers from Minnesota, Alabama, Georgia and even Massachusetts have been crisscrossing the country since the beginning of September, moving loads of ice from storage facility to storage facility and earning big bucks from the federal government to do little more than sit in their cabs and not unload their precious cargo.

As 18 truckers waited on Rogers Street just before noontime yesterday, many wondered aloud why the shipments were coming here and not being sent to those in need after Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast.

"I still don't understand what we're doing here," Ron Johnson said as he stood outside the AmeriCold Logistics storage facility, waiting to drop off 84,000 pounds of ice yesterday. "We're going around in circles."

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[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Good grief

[Walt Starr]

2. Last I heard the trucks were all sitting in maine awaiting instructions.

FEMA = Federal Emergency Muckup Agency

[papau]

3. The Ice left Mass yesterday as FEMA issued orders to take it to Maine

Looks like they will be ready for the next hurricane that hits Bangor.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Yeah, we sure do get a lot of hurricanes up here.

[lse7581011]

7. And with an exceptionally cold winter predicted!

I'm sure it will come in real handy!:sarcasm:

[maine_raptor]

8. In a way it makes sense

Look at it from the simpleton way of thinking common to Bushies:

Maine....Cold....Ice...Cold...send Ice to Maine to keep it cold for next time...mmmm, lint good. :sarcasm:

[Sabriel]

9. Wisconsin could sure use some of that ice.

We could do some early snowmobiling.