Feds slow in responding to hurricane Rita disaster in southeast Texas 


The Beaumont Enterprise reported, "Frustrated emergency management coordinators said Sunday they were seeing the same foot-dragging federal response to Hurricane Rita as their counterparts down the Gulf Coast did during Hurricane Katrina." 

FEMA is withholding the release of badly needed emergency power generators at Ford Park while they finish their damage assessment. Jefferson County officials planned to distribute Meals-Ready-to-Eat from local fire stations, but FEMA is still withholding the MREs. Jefferson County Judge Carl Griffith is quoted as saying, "They won't let us have them. They said we had to go through the state—which we already did—to get them." He said, "We're going into stores and taking food out. We're going to do what we've got to do to get the job done." 

Posted: Monday - September 26, 2005 at 08:49 AM          

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