I guess ICE can be more than one kind of trouble for the 1600 Crew these days...with an unqualified crony appointment to the Immigration and Customs goatfuck going on, check out this latest FEMA Fuck-all:
Hundreds of thousands of pounds of ice meant for the Gulf Coast arrived yesterday not in storm-ravaged New Orleans or Mississippi but in Gloucester, where almost two dozen tractor-trailers spent the day parked on Rogers Street with their engines running.
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Johnson said he picked up an oversized load of ice in Sandwich last Tuesday. From there, he drove to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala., where he spent eight days waiting to unload. All the while, his truck's engine continued to run in order to keep the ice from melting.
And after those eight days - he made around $900 per day, with some truckers earning in excess of $2 per mile - Johnson said he got the news his load was needed in Gloucester.
"I guess they sent us up here because of the big ice crisis you're having in Gloucester," said Dan Hanson, who picked up his 44,000 pounds of ice in St. Paul, Minn., before traveling to Maxwell and spending "eight days and seven minutes" waiting.
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Truck driver Paul Kite said he never would have agreed to pick up the ice had he known it was a job for FEMA, because government orders on shipments often change, he said.
"Once you pick up a load from FEMA, you're stuck," he said. "We've done jobs for FEMA before, but never to this extent where you sit and sit and sit. I just drove 1,300 miles to dump ice in Gloucester. This has to be the stupidest thing I have ever done."
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A frustrated Kite - only 200 miles from cities that he said were on television nightly pleading for help - offered to pay $1,500 for his load of ice so that he could drive it down to the Gulf Coast himself, he said. The offer was refused by FEMA, he said.
Three weeks later, Kite's truck is still carrying the same load of ice.
"Every man standing here will tell you," he said. "Yes, we're enjoying the money we're making. But, it's (expletive)."
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Memhard said his Gloucester company tried to send ice to hurricane-ravaged regions after the storm but could not get permission from FEMA.
"We've been on the Internet and on the phone talking to as many people as we could," said Memhard. "We haven't succeeded in getting on the A-list yet."
Imagine that. Incompetance over at FEMA. I guess they're too busy trying to buy up enough incinerator space for all those Brit MRE's that need incineratin'.
Goddamn, that Preznit'n is HARD WORK!
posted by Jo Fish on 09.20.05 at 10:04 PM
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This just blows the mind. It, it... ((((deep sigh)))
posted by: mando on 09.24.05 at 11:11 AM [permalink]