With less than $1 billion currently available for federal disaster assistance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is temporarily suspending payments to rebuild roads, schools and other structures destroyed during spring tornadoes in Joplin, Mo. and southern states in order to pay for damage caused by Hurricane Irene.
FEMA is placing restrictions on paying for longer-term repair, rebuilding and mitigation projects from previous natural disasters in order to ensure the solvency of the federal disaster relief fund, which pays for emergency management costs and public rebuilding projects, the agency said. The decision will impact the spring tornadoes and disasters dating back several years.
The federal government similarly suspended some disaster payments in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2010, according to FEMA.
So this is normal, fiscally prudent behavior. Good for them, if more difficult for the people who were expecting more government help.
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So this is normal, fiscally prudent behavior. Good for them, if more difficult for the people who were expecting more government help.
I'm going to respectfully disagree here, although the lack of available money is a factor. I am simply wondering how many of those programs would have been suspended if they were in CA, MA, or NY. If programs in those states had been at risk, you would have seen Congress tripping all over itself to find the money somewhere.
Mike
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Where were the presidential visits of concern for the Nashville, Iowa and the Missouri river floods?
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None. I'd say get in line. We are from the government and we are here to help.
Greensburg waited nearly 3 years to get a hospital built; construction started. Joplin had a big box conversion into a school in a matter of months, shows what waiting around for fed assistance is.
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Sherry, this is how the East Coasties and their concentration of media outlets view the rest of the country. If its not part of the agenda, say like the massive flooding in Iowa or along the Missouri versus Katrina victims, it gets maybe two minutes of notice. That's why If the people of the Gulf Coast go without for months, its not a story.
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This hurricane will probably be downgraded to a tropical storm in an hour or so.
Winds and storm surge have been much less than feared. Rainfall has been heavy, however and there has been and will continued to be a lot of flooding.
Probably about 2 million customers either have lost or will lose power; that is within a region of 50-60 million people. But, other than NC and eastern VA, most of the electrical system problems have been localized and will be restored pretty quickly given the mobilization of repair crews.
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This hurricane will probably be downgraded to a tropical storm in an hour or so.
Good practice for the real thing, then. Any real thing.
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I'm very glad to see that Fred & the 'Burg weren't washed away. And could someone please lock Geraldo & Shepard Smith in a closet for a century while?
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Shep does have a sense of humor and recognizes the ridiculousnous of his job sometimes: he just showed a report from Seaside Heights, NJ to let the world know it seems to have survived and their tv world is saved.
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Reporting in from work in Richmond. Downtown has power (obviously), but a lot of the Richmond area doesn't, including my house. No cable, of course. :-(
Lots of trees down. The power company is saying it could be a couple of weeks to get everybody back on line - but I'm hoping that's for the outlying areas, not those of us in built-up areas. Life sucks without power.
Hope Rantburgers in the hit zone are OK (other than power outages).
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Nifty... Irene passed through 9 hours ago and we are getting (I'm guessing) 45mph+ gusts in Brooklyn.
At least I won a (non-RB) pool for guessing that she would pull west of the committee-approved course and that a NYC bulls-eye was possible.
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300,000 out in Mass. I'm one of them. 2 100' trees came down the next street over and took out everything. Got a feeling it'll be a few days. At my mother's now for a visit to the 21st century.
A group of civilians, including women and children, made an unsuccessful bid to cross over to Nowshera on this side of the Line of Control (LoC) from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Saturday morning, but their attempt was foiled by the Army troops.
Senior Army officers said that nearly a dozen civilians were seen coming over to Laam (Nowshera) on this side from across the LoC around 11 am.
As they were unarmed, the troops did not open fire. However, when they reached the forward Indian post on the LoC, they were stopped by the troops.
The civilians insisted on crossing over to this side, saying they belonged to the state and had inadvertently crossed over to PoK long ago. However, the troops did not agree and asked them to return to PoK. The drama continued for nearly two hours, and the civilians went back to PoK in the afternoon.
According to the police, the civilians who tried to cross over were Mohammad Ayub, his wife and seven children. The family was accompanied by one more person identified as Abdul Qayoom.
While Ayub had crossed over to PoK from Rajouri district in 1965, Qayoom went there in 2004. The latter was wanted by the police on charges of crossing the border, a senior police officer said.
Ever since the formulation of a policy by the Omar Abdullah government for rehabilitation of Kashmiri youth who wanted to return home from Pakistan and PoK, this has not been the first time that a family had tried to cross over.
Early this year, a couple along with four children had crossed over to Poonch from PoK. The family was handed over to the state police by the Army troops.
However, apprehending that more families may try to return to the state by crossing the LoC, the senior Army authorities decided not to allow anybody to cross over from anywhere other than the crossing points identified by the government.
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West Bank and Gazoo Strip to have different time zones as a result of Paleostinian power struggle.
For the first time, the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip will have different time zones.
In the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled Gazoo Strip, Paleostinians will go back to standard time later this week after one month of daylight saving time, while those in the West Bank will continue to enjoy summertime, as will Israelis. This means there be a one-hour difference in time between the two Paleostinian entities, with Gazoo an hour earlier.
The difference over the time in the Paleostinian territories is the result of the power struggle between Fatah and Hamas.
Earlier this month, the Paleostinian government in the West Bank decided to move to standard time for 30 days, during Ramadan. The Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip accepted the change and also moved their clocks one hour back.
The Hamas government said on Saturday that it won't observe summertime after the Mohammedan feast of Id al-Fitr, which begins on Tuesday.
But now the West Bank government has decided to go back to summertime. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Hamas said it would not move the clock forward and has instructed Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip to remain on standard time after the feast.
The point is, someone changed the time in accordance with US 20th century policy to influence the fasting of a Mohammaedean Holy Month! Moving the clocks back meant it got dark sooner, so they could end the fast sooner.
Don't they see the irony? Does anyone think allen would be pleased? The Juice must have arranged it!
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- A 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Soldier walks his tour in humble reverence past the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery during Hurricane Irene. Some still remember
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I'm sure the DHS will refuse to deport this freeloading POS, just like Aunt Zeituni
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Wouldn't be the first time an illegal drunk driver would be found again. Question is, where is the driving without a license on the list of charges - I mean, an illegal could not have a driver's license, right?? Right??
Almost hits cop car, or more accurately pulls out in front of cop by running a stop sign. I do like the plea, I didn't hear the cop's tire squeal so he didn't really slam on the brakes. Tells a lot right there, I'll start with: if you are doing it right, your tires will not squeal while stopping.
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I mean, an illegal could not have a driver's license, right?? Right??
Actually Bill Richardson(D), former governor NM, did make it legal in the state. The current governor has been thwarted by the Donks in the legislature to conform to the 2006 Read ID Act and to fix the problem.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
