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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
Actually I lived in eastern North Carolina during Hugo, Floyd, and Isabelle.
I didn’t need anything done for me personally because I lived in a house that had been through hurricanes since 1765. What helped me indirectly was that FEMA provided trailers for at cost rent to the hundreds of people who were left homeless. FEMA also negotiated loan and delivery of equipment for my business so that we could get back to full functionality quicker than if we had to wait for the ordering process to take place. At that point, we were an island so no mail was coming in anyways.
Additionally, FEMA drew up a proposal to equip police and coast guard in our area with a compatible communications system to make communicating work better during times like that. It was one of the last things FEMA did before becoming a part of homeland security.
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Why do you think the folks in NOLA thought FEMA was going to handle evacuation, food, water, medical, rescue, security, communications, etc, right after Katrina? What you described above, seems to me, to be an acceptable role for FEMA, if we have to keep it. But like I said in an earlier post, in CA when FEMA set up, people who I thought were honest, lied to get "free" money. It was a major contrast, on one hand you had people doing heroic things to help others, then you had rampant fruad. It was a defining moment for me.