Just when it looked like FEMA might get its act together to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy they went and closed their relief centers because of a snow storm. Seriously.
Salon reported that Fugate told reporters on a Wednesday conference call that some post-Sandy FEMA facilities and services “had to be secured or postponed during the [current] storm. … We are going to resume when weather permits.”
DNAinfo.com New York visited several FEMA disaster centers and found “Closed due to weather” signs.
A FEMA facility on Coney Island was among those affected.
“The storm is coming. We don’t know how hard it’s going to hit us,” Jenny Cartagena told DNAInfo outside that FEMA site. “I need some help now.”
Non-FEMA volunteers handing out supplies on Staten Island said FEMA buses disappeared Wednesday, and were no longer available as places for New Yorkers with no electricity to get warm. (Read More)


@lonelycon wow they are useless.
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“We’re from the gov’t and (not) here to help you”
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O. Henry could not have dreamed up irony as absurd as this. An agency sent to deal with weather closing because of weather. How’s that Hope and Change workin’ for y’all up there? Still glad you voted to reelect this ersatz Messiah that was going to lower the level of the ocean? It must have been pretty when it hit.
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Media says 250,000 automobiles super storm Sandy destroyed heading to junkyard. Guess were gonna see Obama back as car salesman trying to sell these people hybrid cars.
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Good thing it didn’t happen a few months ago or he would have bought them all new cars to secure their votes.
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