Re: Obama's Katrina, is it because they are Red States??
- From: Observer <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:58:43 -0500
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:29:11 -0800 (PST), Too_Many_Tools
<too_many_tools@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 2, 6:16 pm, Observer <nob...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:26:46 -0800 (PST), Too_Many_Tools
<too_many_to...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 2, 2:09 pm, "Bay Area Holdout" <Linea...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What a shame, President BHO is acting so slow. One could suspect he's
draggiing his feet because these are all Red States that didn't vote for
him.
Not the kind of CHANGE he talked about or was it? Guess he's still busy
trying wash the egg off his face over Daschle and Geithner not even being
smart enough to pay taxes. Or was it they thought that was only for the
"other people" to pay?
BAHO
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090202/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm
FRANKFORT, Ky. ? Kentucky's governor will ask President Barack Obama on
Monday to speed up federal aid dollars as costs spiral past $45 million for
emergency work to restore power, hand out water and food and clear debris
across the state hit hard by an icy winter storm last week.
Obama signed federal emergency declarations last week for Kentucky, Arkansas
and Missouri after ice and snow blamed for more than 40 deaths in nine
states and for power outages that peaked at 1.3 million customers from the
Southern Plains to the East Coast.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear said he will ask the president to upgrade the
federal response by declaring a major disaster, which would open the door
for immediate financial assistance. The current disaster declaration
provides for federal assistance with material, such as generators and
bottled water being distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Democratic governor said the tab for the cleanup already exceeded $45
million, the threshold for receiving a major disaster declaration. "That
number may well increase," Beshear told The Associated Press.
Kentucky had the most power outages last week, a state record of 700,000
customers. By Sunday night, the figure had dropped to less than half that.
Still, it could be weeks before some people have power again.
"It's going to be a long haul for us," Beshear said Sunday as he toured
hard-hit areas in and around Elizabethtown. "We've thrown everything we have
at it. We're going to continue to do that until everyone is back in their
homes and back on their feet."
In Arkansas, many residents in the northern part of the state will spend
another week without electricity as utility crews work to replace thousands
of poles and eventually work house to house to restore power.
About 114,000 Arkansas customers were without service Monday morning, a week
after freezing rain started to fall. A peak of about 350,000 homes and
businesses had no electricity after the storm.
In Kentucky, thousands of National Guard troops, some wielding chain saws,
cleared debris from roads and rolled through neighborhoods in Humvees to
deliver chili and stew to relieved residents.
"The kids were looking out the windows and yelling, 'Yay! We're saved!'"
said Bryan Bowling, 30, who's been hunkering down with 18 people next to a
fireplace inside his generator-powered home in rural Grayson county, some 90
miles southwest of Louisville.
"It's just good to know that people care," said Bowling, who has a
7-year-old and a 4-year-old.
Emergency generators were in demand, and 52-year-old David Strange was out
Sunday installing the units at rural homes in west Kentucky. Strange bought
200 generators and was selling them for markups of around $50 to $100,
including delivery down remote country lanes, earning the nickname "the
generator man."
His customers included an elderly couple fearful they couldn't run a
dialysis machine. "I just don't know how to put what he's done for us into
words," said Janeen Timmons, 62, the dialysis patient.
By Sunday night, 93 of Kentucky's 120 counties along with 71 cities had
declared a state of emergency, according to Monica French, a spokeswoman for
the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management.
The 4,600 soldiers Beshear ordered on duty, including his entire Army
National Guard, swept through the state distributing food and water,
removing fallen trees, providing security and checking houses in
hard-to-reach areas.
In Hardinsburg, one door-to-door check of houses without electricity is
being credited for saving the lives of an elderly couple. The Kentucky
National Guard said in a press release that two airmen visited the couple's
home Sunday and found the wife apparently confused and the husband
complaining of nausea.
Both were treated and released at a hospital. Authorities said carbon
monoxide levels were more than twice what is considered lethal, and blamed
the poisoning on a faulty gas furnace.
Diana Burba was among thousands of people who received cases of bottled
water from the National Guard. Burba has no power, and she can't drink the
muck coming out of her faucet.
"It's like muddy water comes out," Burba said in her Bonnieville mobile
home.
"You don't know how much you depend on it," she said of amenities like clean
water and electricity. "When you don't have it, life kind of halts."
The troops, utility workers and good-natured civilians took advantage of
temperatures near 50 across much of the region to make headway on repairs.
The National Weather Service warned the melt could cause some flooding, but
temperatures could dip back into the 20s and teens by Monday night.
LOL...Thanks for providing the very info I was going to post to
SUPPORT Obama's timely actions.
KY has taken this long to ask for help.
Lots of the KY folks are somewhat hardened and don't depend on the
grid. By. Necessity.
Course you claimed it was stupid to build in KY. Aren't survivalists
s'posed to get far from the big cities & be somewhat self sufficient
to weather the weather? Or are you just here for political screeds?
Has anyone else noticed that conservatives like Bay Area Holdout are
not very quick to catch on?
Might this be because listening to Rush too long kills most of their
brain cells?
You seem to have cause and effect reversed.
We do know from first hand accounts that it causes erectile
dsyfunction in Republicans.
Please, no cite.
TMT
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Course you claimed it was stupid to build in KY.
Care to show me where I stated this?
In a thread called "1.3 million without power..many without food,
water rush to shelters' warmth" You can peruse your own comments,
eh?
Or are you a liar?
Are you?
Time to show us winger.
This is the second time you've called me a winger. No apology from
the first time, either. But you apparently have a mission
Too funny, Cheese-Bob and Gummer consider me to be a god-damned
liberal, yet to you I'm a winger. Ergo, you have more in common with
them than you have with a rational person.
TMT
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The last official act of any government is the looting of the nation.
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