...or Ray Nagin.
Update VI: Jewel, over at
Gerard's, tells a great story:
"Today, my husband witnessed a wondrous act of resourcefulness. A man
with a horse trailer hitched to his truck was filling up individual 5
gallon jugs of gas in order to transport them back to New Jersey. He
went out into the wide world of American plenty that lies just beyond
disaster. He didn't wait like a hopeless fool in a line of idling cars
for gasoline that is rationed by the spoonful. His neighbors hired him
because he had a big, gas eating truck, and gave him money and jugs and
sent him to Lancaster County to go shopping. He brought back not only
gasoline, but food, water, clothing, blankets, batteries, and other
things they might need. Those people are heroes, because they used their
God-given talents and brains and didn't go crying to the cameras,
asking for the government to come and help."
It's easy to get "wrapped around the axle" in a mess like Sandy. Jewel's post is a wonderful reminder that everything you need is available a couple of hours away.
Update V:
Daily Caller reports that the IBEW sent a letter to the Florida electrical utility demanding that the emergency workers join the (damned) union. Class act, brothers!
Not to be out done, nanny Bloomberg answers THS's question. Seems he disapproves of the National Guard's policy of carrying weapons, particularly guns.
He's afraid of "martial law". (Ed Driscoll at Instapundit)
Did I mention that truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense? Yeah, 's true.
Update IV: Tree Hugging Sister over at the Coalition asks:
Seems they are waiting to be activated, but none of the super-geniuses in charge have thought to do that. So supplies that are pre-contracted (like water and ice) are gathering dust while everyone waits for FEMA to get a contract out. Tomorrow.
And this, from the
New York Post:
"Some Rockaways residents who work as firefighters in The Bronx and
Manhattan were fuming yesterday — sitting idly in their firehouses while
their neighbors and family members miles away struggled to get help."
Update III: The proverbial $64.00 questions that need asking are, "Why weren't Cuomo and Bloomberg setting up relief sites two weeks ago? Why weren't they pre-positioning bottled water, MREs and blankets? Who says you have to wait on FEMA to do it??
WHO??"
They have let down the people who have (foolishly) trusted in them.
Update II: You have to,
HAVE TO be ready to live in isolation for at least a week after something like Sandy or Katrina or the Sylmar quake. There just aren't enough Official First Responders to come and wipe your nose!! So far, the only real assistance in Rockaway or Staten Island has been neighbors helping neighbors. And that is how it happens - you take care of yourself, your family, and your neighborhood.
Update: Mary Katherine Ham at Hot Air has a great piece up about Federal vs. local disaster recovery management, and (of all things)
"The Waffle House Index".
Previously:
I am willing to bet that I am not the only one who was paying attention to the news, particularly the weather, in the last two weeks or so. I made sure the truck had a full tank. I made sure that I had propane for the camp stove, batteries for flashlights and camping lamps, a well-stocked freezer and fridge, a clean bathtub full of fresh water,
Here's the money quote from nanny Bloomberg:
“We are, over the next few days, going to have to work out some
procedures to make sure people can get food,” Mayor Bloomberg insisted.
Let that sink in. Like New Orleans in Katrina, whose disaster preparedness plan amounted to "We should have one".
Yup. He obviously took lessons from Nagin.
