FEMA has contracted for trucks full of ice for the Gulf Coast. They are reportedly coming from all over the country. After arriving in the region and sitting around for a couple of days, they are being diverted to Maine. Portland officials are expecting as many as 200 trucks to unload at a local warehouse, while FEMA figures out where they will be
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Good link. Good article. Thanks.
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Maybe you read another story about donated ice or you've been listening to some right-wing nutjob with a website, but if this particular ice was being donated and there was no need for it, I'm sure the drivers would've taken it back instead of trucking it to Maine and then, deadheading back to their point of origin. With the price of fuel the way it's been, I find it doubtful that anyone would absorb such an outlandish expense, let alone pay the drivers thousands of dollars for sitting around, plus at least one dude quoted in the paper link is an owner-operator, so someone would've had to contract for his services directly.
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http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=496
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The day that Hurricane Katrina reached status 5, Mr. Archie Harris, President of the 100ish year old Rose Ice and Coal Company of Wilmington, North Carolina, enlisted his fellow Icemen across the country, including Canada. He phoned, e-mailed, and faxed for days ( ... )
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And in a press statement, the Army Corp says; "For Katrina, the Corps has followed its normal procedures, pre-positioning ice and water teams at staging areas prior to the storm. Following the storm, at FEMA’s direction, we ordered very large quantities of these commodities (211 million pounds of ice, and 100 million liters of water) to meet the anticipated need." (Along with some other CYA data about their response or the lack, thereof ( ... )
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