From what I am told, the Post stirred up quite a bit of attention from local Officials all the way to the Governors Office.
While I'm not going to expose who said what, I will say that two applications have now been forwarded to the FEDS, (FEMA) for immediate relief and our state and local politicians are firmly on top of the situation, yet remain frustrated.
The blame lies on the FEDS. Keep in mind Ladies & Gentlemen, not only was hurricane Sandy a catastrophe, the end result will never be satisfying. People will be displaced for a year or two no matter what. The inconveniences are NOT the fault of our politicians. However, after hurricane Katrina and the delays we saw in New Orleans, one would think this response time on a Town as small as Crisfield and other small surrounding communities warrant a much quicker response than 21 days.
We already published the above story how Delaware has already been declared a Federal Disaster area in three counties. Makes you really wonder why Crisfield has been ignored for so long now, doesn't it?
shows our top notch politicians really care about us. thanks sjd
ReplyDeleteHelp Is On The Way?
ReplyDeleteIs Jim Ireton heading down there.
Paragraph 3 sates "immediate relief".The intentions are good,but the relief is anything but immediate.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't hurt that the Vice President of the United States of American comes from Delaware.
ReplyDeleteYou should link back to the original blog post.
ReplyDeleteBut I thought we weren't supposed to accept government money?
ReplyDeleteI think you should give credit to this high up government official so we can remember the good deeds of this person ib future elections.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 10:01, once we see results we will do just that. Until then, talk is cheap.
ReplyDeleteCardin and Mikulski still missing in action.
ReplyDeleteAll the while local emergency management seemed to be chasing their tails during and after the hurricane.
Left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing and all was a cluster *
If it wasn't for local citizens just pitching in where we could helping neighbors and local businesses donating a lot of stuff this could have been really a lot worse.
So much for MEMA and FEMA.
How come there wasn't an EVACUATION scheduled for Crisfield BEFORE the storm ever hit. It's not as if they didn't know it was coming. Just another thought every one should think about.
ReplyDeleteGood question Joe, the whole town is built on a rubble of oyster shells, who whould have thunk it?
ReplyDeleteToo bad Jim Ireton couldn't get his section 8 housing built downtown before the hurricane, it could have been condemned before completion, the idiot.
And all the while, Delmarva residents are sending donations to New Jersey!
ReplyDeleteWhy aren't Delmarva residents focusing efforts on areas like Crisfield and other DELMARVA areas impacted by the storm?!