Will New Orleans ever dug out of this mess
New Orleans is back in the news. Unfortunately, none of the news is good. First FEMA. FEMA = Disaster. FEMA has been using those great FEMA trailers which as it turns out are releasing toxic levels of formaldehyde. On the other hand, the state of Louisiana turned to James Lee Witt, former FEMA director under Clinton, back when the agency did something besides spend our money. NBC news appears to have uncovered some questionable billing practices by Secretary Witt. The city, the state can’t win for losing.
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From MSNBC.com:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will keep selling and donating surplus disaster-relief trailers despite concerns that they may have unhealthy levels of formaldehyde, the agency said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Health Affairs plan to test the air quality in the trailers.
“Potential buyers/recipients will be fully advised of the concerns regarding formaldehyde levels in travel trailers,” FEMA spokesman Aaron Walker said Friday in an e-mail message to The Associated Press. (more…)
[...] figure out what we want from government. If we want government to clean up natural disasters like Katrina and from that tornado in Kansas then we need to elect folks that can manage people and disasters. [...]