A letter from Michael Moore

[TDW]

Rob...Good job on the help you are providing. I will also hold my thoughts on MM. I live in the Town he has trashed. By the way, he is not from Flint. He is from Davison, a rather nice suburb of Flint. His own hometown refused to honor him in any way.

[Belair62]

These folks probably could have used a decent mayor who had some type of plan or the brains to come up with one...IMO

[kwhizz]

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These folks probably could have used a decent mayor who had some type of plan or the brains to come up with one...IMO

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Clear, Consise, and Logical..........I Agree with BelAir

Ken
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[Schonyenko2]

The sheriff from Scott county and 6 deputies returned from the NO. area today. Sheriff Conard is intelligent, consise, articulate, and well versed in emergency management. He's also a Republican, and I've voted for him more than once. He said there is virtually no real organization. The local sheriff actually ran the feds off as they could not make any decisions. He said people have, and are dieing because of the lack of a comprehensive plan. He said "elected officials from the local level to the federal level should be held accountable for this mess."
I do not understand how in post 9/11 this could happen. This could have been a dirty bomb, or a biological assault. I have to think the confusion would have been the same.
There's a protocal that happens in emergency management, to say nothing of local and state mutual aid agreements.
Local calls county, county calls state, state calls fed. Contingency plans are implemented and should be backed up with redundent plans to cover problems, or redirect help.
Now someone , or everyone, dropped the ball.
And there may be 10,000 dead Americans, not poor people, not black people, not white trash people,not elderly folks who couldn't evacuate, not folks living in gated communities, not Republican, not Democrats. Americans. Our people.
Ken Schoenthaler, Mayor, City of Donahue
DVFD, fire fighter, EMS

[Chris396]

A friend of mine from Alabama is having a rough time with FEMA

**************************************My huge gripe right now is that the Feds not only have no plan to feed them, they have no plan to get them here. We're willing to go to Baton Rouge and get them. We have buses and CDL drivers. We even have police escorts lined up.

We have shelters ready to feed them and care for them. We have Doctors ready to provide medical care. We have grief counselors and certified counselors ready for them. We have set up a "Love Mart" supplied with everything they might need.

What we don't have is a permit from FEMA. One of our local circuit judges is beating his head against a wall of bureaucratic stupidity trying to get the permit. Everything is ready if the government will get out of the way and let it happen.

I'm worried that they will suffer down there when there's a good place for them here at our Park. Our governor actually bought the trailers with Alabama money. The Feds are just being an obstacle. That's all that they're doing. Email to your congressman would be appreciated.

If any of you do want to help, United Way of Marshall County is a fine organization. Anything given to them right now will go into our relief effort, but ear mark it "State Park relief" just in case. Our Church association was way out in front with our distribution channel, so the other agenices are joining us. Their address is 705 Blount Avenue, Guntersville, AL 35976.*********************************

[SamLBInj]

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These folks probably could have used a decent mayor who had some type of plan or the brains to come up with one...IMO

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How about the head of Fema? Gee whiz, looks pretty bad down there, Let me know if anybody calls in case they need any help

[Belair62]

Odd that you would need a permit to help people..

[SamLBInj]

Anybody see that town in Mississippi that was built to 200mph wind codes? entire town is completely gone with only a tiny part of one single house left. This is where the eye went through. they said 20'+ storm surge followed by a bunch of tornados and then the back half of the hurricane, absolutely unbelievable to see that. We are building for 110mph here and now im wondering why even bother after seeing that

[Canucklehead]

I'm worried that they will suffer down there when there's a good place for them here at our Park. Our governor actually bought the trailers with Alabama money. The Feds are just being an obstacle. That's all that they're doing. Email to your congressman would be appreciated.
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That must be what all those trailers i saw on the news were for, i just caught the back end of the story and they were talking about all these trailers sitting there going to waste as buracratic balony was making things difficult.

[SamLBInj]

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Odd that you would need a permit to help people..

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You need permits for everything,Try getting a permit to build a tiny dock or bulkhead, the feds take for ever to complete the paperwork. we spend more time getting permits, meeting with the DEP and EPA, getting inspections,Meeting with inspectors, getting all the surveys, engineering and flood elevation certificates than we do building the house, it has added 2-3 months time on a new house. First timers are amazed at the process and red tape..