Over 40 People Have Died In Kentucky

[Annie]

Has Barack Obama gone down there yet? No? People died and Obama snoozed. Truly unforgivable. Where's FEMA, in a meaningful way? No excuses. The horror.

 

[WillowTree]

Hell! no.. he's going to throw a superbowl party. He can't be bothered with folks who are a dying.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Hell! no.. he's going to throw a superbowl party. He can't be bothered with folks who are a dying.

well Christ it is the Super Bowl after all......and he cant go the next day American Idol is on.....he may not get there.....well maybe when it warms up a bit....

 

[DavidS]

Has Barack Obama gone down there yet? No? People died and Obama snoozed. Truly unforgivable. Where's FEMA, in a meaningful way? No excuses. The horror.

Are you serious? It was an ice storm.

Did Bush come to NY after our 2006 blizzard?

Are you people trying to find everything imaginable to criticize him on? He's not even in office two weeks.

If his stimulus bills don't work, then criticize him. If a hurricane hits, then criticize him. An ice storm? Are you serious? What's he going to survey? The ice? And if he goes there, all of the police and military people who are helping Kentucky right now would have to be diverted to Obama to help him.

The reason why Katrina was such a cluster fuck was because of FEMA and the people running FEMA. Bush had been president for 4 years already. Obama will probably destroy FEMA and start a completely new emergency managment team for the gov't.

 

[DavidS]

Hell! no.. he's going to throw a superbowl party. He can't be bothered with folks who are a dying.

well Christ it is the Super Bowl after all......and he cant go the next day American Idol is on.....he may not get there.....well maybe when it warms up a bit....

AI isn't on Mondays. It's on Tuesdays. 24 is on Mondays. So is Monday Night Raw. Hope he has a DVR.

 

[Annie]

Hell! no.. he's going to throw a superbowl party. He can't be bothered with folks who are a dying.

well Christ it is the Super Bowl after all......and he cant go the next day American Idol is on.....he may not get there.....well maybe when it warms up a bit....

AI isn't on Mondays. It's on Tuesdays. 24 is on Mondays. So is Monday Night Raw. Hope he has a DVR.

Seems the only way he'll realize that so many have died in a 'national disaster.'

 

[Chris]

Obama doesn't care about white people.

 

[nukeman]

Has Barack Obama gone down there yet? No? People died and Obama snoozed. Truly unforgivable. Where's FEMA, in a meaningful way? No excuses. The horror.

Are you serious? It was an ice storm.

Did Bush come to NY after our 2006 blizzard?

Are you people trying to find everything imaginable to criticize him on? He's not even in office two weeks.

If his stimulus bills don't work, then criticize him. If a hurricane hits, then criticize him. An ice storm? Are you serious? What's he going to survey? The ice? And if he goes there, all of the police and military people who are helping Kentucky right now would have to be diverted to Obama to help him.

The reason why Katrina was such a cluster fuck was because of FEMA and the people running FEMA. Bush had been president for 4 years already. Obama will probably destroy FEMA and start a completely new emergency managment team for the gov't.

It was an ice storm that has affected as many people as katrina!!! So where exactly has he been on the subject of 600,000 people in KY alone without power, water, or food. gee does that sound familiar. I guess if its your second week on the job you get a pass or something. I thought he had this VAST amount of organizational experience, what the hell happend to all of that...

Bush was villified in the media for not going to NO. So why the double standard...

 

[Chris]

ATLANTA -- Kentucky’s storm emergency needs continue to be a priority for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is coordinating and delivering federal resources to the commonwealth.

With widespread power outages affecting communications capabilities in Kentucky, FEMA’s Mobile Emergency Response Support units – called MERS – have moved from Thomasville, Ga. and Frederick, Md. to Kentucky.

MERS assets include portable radio towers, repeaters and radios; multiple portable KU Band satellite systems and satellite telephones to help officials in areas where cellular towers are inoperative.

FEMA also has deployed its Incident Response Vehicle, technicians, and radio/repeater equipment to construct a radio network capable of providing communications.

“This is an amazing effort and we have worked long hours to move supplies and equipment. Our working partnership with FEMA ensures we are getting excellent help under difficult circumstances for Kentuckians suffering from the winter storm,” said Gen. John W. Heltzel, director of Kentucky’s Division of Emergency Management.

FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are working together to provide industrial-size generators needed to power critical facilities. Teams are assessing needs and installing these generators each day.

FEMA also is fulfilling the commonwealth’s requests for diesel fuel and unleaded gasoline. Delivery of a total 80,000 gallons began Saturday at commonwealth staging areas in Greenville and Paducah.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky and FEMA Work Together - WOWK-TV - WOWKTV.com

 

[Annie]

People froze, Obama dozed.

 

[Gun Clingin']

Obama don't care about Kentucky folk. Besides, they are a red state that voted over 60% for McCain. I'm sure he'd be happy if the whole state were killed. Just kidding ofcourse.

 

[DavidS]

People froze, Obama dozed.

Please, Annie. Tell me exactly what Obama could have done to save the lives of every single one of those 40 people. FEMA is doing everything it can to help those people.

 

[Gun Clingin']

People froze, Obama dozed.

Please, Annie. Tell me exactly what Obama could have done to save the lives of every single one of those 40 people. FEMA is doing everything it can to help those people.

What do you mean "those people"?

 

[Luissa]

People froze, Obama dozed.

Please, Annie. Tell me exactly what Obama could have done to save the lives of every single one of those 40 people. FEMA is doing everything it can to help those people.

He should have been the one personally saving them!

 

[DiveCon]

Has Barack Obama gone down there yet? No? People died and Obama snoozed. Truly unforgivable. Where's FEMA, in a meaningful way? No excuses. The horror.

take a look at this

http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/01/29/thermostat-a-sign-that-global-warming-not-a-serious-concern/

 

[DiveCon]

People froze, Obama dozed.

Please, Annie. Tell me exactly what Obama could have done to save the lives of every single one of those 40 people. FEMA is doing everything it can to help those people.

he could at least turn down the temp in the whitehouse to symbolicly show support


btw, did you buy that electric heater for backup heat yet?

 

[jgbkab]

Obama doesn't care about white people.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

As many people effected as Katrina and the press does not seem to find the time to blast the current White Hose for any failures as people die? Now who would have expected that? No demands for him to drop everything and second guess FEMA? No demands of why instant relief has not occurred?

With Katrina the bridges, the roads, the airports were all out and it only took 2 and a half days for FEMA to reach New Orleans with meaningful help and yet the Press and the Democrats lambasted the President rather then the Governor and the Mayor.

Yet not a peep this time. Well after all it is "just" an Ice Storm. Who cares that it knocked out an entire State? And no week long notice before hand for an evacuation or preparation.

I notice the State Governor is not whining that some of his National Guard troops are not available either.

 

[editec]

Has Barack Obama gone down there yet? No? People died and Obama snoozed. Truly unforgivable. Where's FEMA, in a meaningful way? No excuses. The horror.

This is a VALID complaint.

And as the climate continues to mess with us, as we witness the outcome of what happens when an unprepared dying empire comes under outside stress?

Expect more weather disasters where millions of Americans are sitting in the dark waiting for help that won't come in time.

Some of us, perhaps all of us, are soon going to discover WHY GOVERNMENT IS IMPORTANT.

I cannot help but wonder how many LIBERTARIANS are currently sitting in freezing homes asking themselves where the help is.

Perhaps they'll need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, eh?

We'll very quickly see how these SELF MADE MEN do when the civilization that has sustained them starts to unravel.

What will we find?

That these SELF MADE MEN are in fact, creatures dependent on SOCIETY WORKING no less than the rest of us.

The TRUTH is OUTING FOLKS.

It always does.

 

[Annie]

People froze, Obama dozed.

Please, Annie. Tell me exactly what Obama could have done to save the lives of every single one of those 40 people. FEMA is doing everything it can to help those people.

Excuses really don't cut it, not to the families of the now 42 dead. Shameful:

FEMA condemned for slow response to ice storm crisis (OneNewsNow.com)

FEMA condemned for slow response to ice storm crisis
Bruce Schreiner - Associated Press Writer - 1/31/2009 6:30:00 AM
MARION, Ky. - A crippling winter storm has plunged about a million customers into the dark from the Midwest to the East Coast, and thousands of people in ice-caked Kentucky have sought refuge in motels and shelters.

Dozens of deaths have been reported and many people are pleading for a faster response to the power outages. Some in rural Kentucky ran short of food and bottled water, and resorted to dipping buckets in a creek.

Thousands fled frigid, powerless homes for hotels and even a heated auditorium at Murray State University that was converted into a shelter following Monday's storm that left some areas in up to 1 inch ice.

Utility workers hoped to speed up efforts Saturday to turn the lights back on. Still, rural communities feared it could be days or even weeks before workers got to areas littered with downed power lines.

Temperatures were expected to rise just above freezing Saturday for the first time in days.

At least 42 people have died in the icy arc of destruction that began in the Midwest. At least nine deaths were reported in Arkansas, six each in Texas and Missouri, three in Virginia, two each in Oklahoma, Indiana and West Virginia and one in Ohio. Most were blamed on hypothermia, traffic accidents and carbon monoxide poisoning from generators....