Bloggence, Cunning, Exile

New Orleans as Experiment by FEMA

FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations

FEMA turns away experienced firefighters

FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks

FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel

FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food

FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans

FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid

FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board

FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck

FEMA turns away generators

FEMA: "First Responders Urged Not To Respond"

(That last one is also real — not satire, but straight from FEMA's website.)
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{See link above for sources and full text for each of the items above. The overall picture this generates is not so much one of gross incompetence, but rather of an experiment to see what will happen when an American city is utterly destroyed in the foreseeable future. FEMA plans to observe the chaos, to cultivate it, and then to calculate for future social control over the ruins.}

posted by E. Heroux @ 2:00 PM