Re: Rita causes record damage to oil rigs

Tim May <timcmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>In article <7gcnj11klrippanancidkm7g7219o73426@xxxxxxx>, John Lansford
><jlnsford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> "US 71" <us71@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> >"John Lansford" <jlnsford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >news:m52mj1d9jp7h2itd0gqauift6gdvncqqqp@xxxxxxxxxx

>> >> I'd like to hear him say that to towns like Beaumont and the numerous
>> >> smaller towns that got flattened by Rita. There are many of them
>> >> still waiting on Federal help, even though Bush and FEMA were patting
>> >> themselves on the back and congratulating themselves on how much
>> >> they'd learned since Katrina.

>> >You won't. FEMA is too busy repairing the oil rigs to be "bothered" with
>> >anyhting else. I have guests at my hotel who have been told by the Hardin
>> >County (TX) Sheriff Dept that FEMA has told them they're "too busy"
>> >repairing the oil rigs to worry about anyhting else.

>> The news is reporting that FEMA was "surprised" in Texas from the
>> amount of people showing up at their offices for help, and promised
>> they would get more personnel to staff them and stay open 7 days a
>> week. Apparently once Rita missed Houston and Galveston they felt
>> hardly anyone would be affected, and cut back their response. Or,
>> maybe after all the PR shots of them getting ready for Rita, they cut
>> back once the cameras disappeared.

>Three million people ordered to evacuate the Houston/Galveston area are
>now scrambling to get their $2000 automatic FEMA check.

>For those who are counting, that's $6 billion right there.

>Free money. From taxpayers.

Maybe you should actually pay attention...I'm one of two evacuees in this
Houston household who isn't going to ask anything from FEMA - because we got
out and came back to a residence that wasn't damaged. Peddle your charade
elsewhere.

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