Yes, RI has already asked for and begun receiving FEMA assistance. Took a trip down to my folks place in metro Boston area earlier today to check for water damage there and they had a reverse 911 call on their message machine instructing them how to contact FEMA for assistance if needed.
But even though the FEMA teams have arrived, I guess the director had other plans this week.
FEMA Administrator Visits Sunny Orlando as Rhode Island Deals With Worst Flooding in 200 Years
Thursday, April 01, 2010
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
William Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Photo from FEMA Web site)(CNSNews.com) – On Wednesday, one day after President Barack Obama issued an emergency declaration for flood-stricken Rhode Island authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency “to coordinate all disaster relief efforts” for the state, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate was in sunny Orlando, Fla., giving a speech.
FEMA on Thursday told CNSNews.com that Fugate had been in Florida this week, attending a hurricane preparation conference, but despite repeated inquiries from CNSNews.com, administration spokesmen would not say specifically where Fugate was as of Thursday morning, or whether he had any plans to go to R.I. FEMA's statement said that Fugate’s deputy would go to R.I.
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