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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (683086)	11/5/2012 12:07:09 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575446

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. Was talking yesterday with a friend who lives near New Orleans and is in charge of disaster recovery planning for sizable public corporation. She was pointing out that there are a few things that are essentially no-brainers once you have gone through one of these events. Yet, FEMA fails time and again to be prepared for it. Water, fuel, and temporary electricity arrangements are at the top of her list. And canned foods, including meat. But floods are hard. Because even if you have the stuff you need, getting it to the people who need it can be problematic. While the scale of the Sandy storm is huge, compared to Katrina it isn't, and they ought not be having problems getting water in there a week after the event.