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Cali Wildfire Victims Ask: Where's FEMA?
Cali Wildfire Victims Ask: Where's FEMA?
FEMA brought dozens of mobile homes to Southern California after the fires, only to find their own guidelines prevented them from putting them on many properties in rough terrain.

*FEMA strikes (or rather, doesn't) again. Hey, why don't they borrow some funds from Tanzania! picked by dollyllama 8 months ago
tags FEMA california wildfires unfamiliar territory no research inmates running the asylum
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 ImNotBlu...
8 months ago
« dollyllama : Cali Wildfire Victims Ask: Where's FEMA?

FEMA brought dozens of mobile homes to Southern California after the fires, only to find their own guidelines prevented them from putting them on many properties in rough terrain.

*FEMA strikes (or rather, doesn't) again. Hey, why don't they borrow some funds from Tanzania!
Oh come on... funding has nothing to do with this. At worst, it's more poor planning. They have the temporary homes... in fact they have nicer ones than before... but the locations of the homes is proving too treacherous to deliver them. And they don’t want to use the old homes, because of toxic chemicals (or something) that they’re finding in them now.

Bad planning for an area that has been hit by wild fires before… sure. But a funding issue, it’s not.
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 dollylla...
8 months ago
« ImNotBlue : Oh come on... funding has nothing to do with this. At worst, it's more poor planning. They have the temporary homes... in fact they have nicer ones than before... but the locations of the homes is proving too treacherous to deliver them. And they don’t want to use the old homes, because of toxic chemicals (or something) that they’re finding in them now.

Bad planning for an area that has been hit by wild fires before… sure. But a funding issue, it’s not.
Hmm, lessee, they got their homes up there in the first place, so I'm going to venture that it is funding, it's just too costly to get those homes up there. It always comes down to money.
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 ImNotBlu...
8 months ago
« dollyllama : Hmm, lessee, they got their homes up there in the first place, so I'm going to venture that it is funding, it's just too costly to get those homes up there. It always comes down to money.
From the article:
Reedy isn't alone. FEMA brought dozens of mobile homes to Southern California after the fires, only to find their own guidelines prevented them from putting them on many properties in rough terrain. San Diego County officials say dozens of applicants were denied homes because their properties were inaccessible to trucks, didn't have connections into the electrical grid or were on hillsides deemed at mudslide risk.

"They don't have any familiarity with these areas so they can't conceive of the needs being different," said Deena Raver, a contractor who was hired by San Diego County to help fire victims. "You're talking about one area with sewage and water and other places that are very rural."
I mean, I suppose if you argue that if they had unlimited funds, they could do anything... well then sure. But realistically speaking, it was not feasible.

When these fires broke out, weren't there lots of stories about how it was mostly very wealthy people, who liked the scenic location... even though there were occasional fires, mudslides, and whatever else? Call me insensitive, but I see this as the cost of living high on the hill (both literally and figuratively.)
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 dollylla...
8 months ago
From the article:
"I ran into my first FEMA inspector at the grocery store, and he said, 'You pay your taxes, so don't let them tell you no,"' she said.
It ALWAYS comes down to money.

So if you're wealthy but you pay taxes, it's ok that the government ignores you? I'm not sure I get your point.

And I didn't write the articles about people being wealthy, I wouldn't know if they were or not. Maybe their net worth was in the real estate, which would make them poor right now.

Irrelevant and not to the point. We can squander TRILLIONS everywhere else but cannot help our own citizens and taxpayers. Ludicrous.
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