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To: i-node who wrote (683085)	11/4/2012 11:47:53 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575341

But I think Z's claim it is "being handled just fine" may be correct where he is, but clearly isn't in other areas. A week after the storm people were screaming for water and FEMA was SLAP OUT. You would think if they had nothing else, they would have had plenty of water. I was in Jersey Sat and can say one area where FEMA could have helped a lot is if they could have provided generators to gas stations that had fuel but could not pump gas and see to it that stations that had generators and could pump gas had gas to pump. It seemed that FEMA did neither. Coming down from NY, I picked up NJ Rte 17 south at the NY state border. From there for the next 20 miles, there were 8 stations open ( probably 1 in 4) with lines from 100- 300 cars long. Each open station had flashing police cars and officers on foot keeping order.

To: i-node who wrote (683085)	11/5/2012 12:10:24 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575341

to illustrate how bad the gas situation was last Friday.........I live just a mile off the Taconic State Parkway (about 80 miles) north of NYC. The Taconic runs N/S on the east side of the Hudson River starting in the Bronx and running up to near Albany. I had to go 5 gas stations in from the Taconic in my area before I could get gas. People were riding up from NYC and stopping at every Taconic exit (loads of Hispanics) to buy gas in what ever containers they had. Note my area never lost power and saw virtually NO damage from Sandy.

To: i-node who wrote (683085)	11/5/2012 2:43:45 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1575341

Inode, I think that people were conditioned to believe that it's FEMA's responsibility to help everyone affected by a hurricane. This was because after the Hurricane Katrina disaster, so many people needed to point the finger somewhere, and Bush and FEMA became a convenient scapegoat. Well seven years have passed since then, and with all this talk about hurricanes being the new norm thanks to global warming, FEMA should have had plenty of time to prepare for the next one. So did they live up to expectations? Apparently not, given how many people are complaining. The truth is that people have way too high of an expectation for what government can do in terms of disaster relief. SilentZ has the right perspective, but he can't deny that the Democrats capitalized politically on the whole FEMA blame game back in 2005. Remember Kanye West claiming that Bush hated black people? Wonder if SilentZ said, "Oh screw that," or whether he nodded his head in agreement. Tenchusatsu