FEMA Blames Residents For Toxic Trailers
By CraftyCorner
@CraftyCorner (5600)
United States
October 22, 2008 5:19pm CST
FEMA accuses Gulf Coast hurricane trailer residents of toxic lifestyles that increase the formaldehyde levels that exist in the trailers they are forced to reside in. Specifically, FEMA cited smoking, cooking, storing dry-cleaning products as suspect activities. That includes little babies with bloody noses. If you don't want to live in your toxic trailer, FEMA welcomes you to move out...on your own dime.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/22/national/main4538105.shtml?tag=topHome;topStories
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
23 Oct 08
Your very welcome. Personally, I don't trust FEMA to not run you over while parked at a red light.
@jands1 (835)
• United States
23 Oct 08
I went on two dates with someone on an executive level of FEMA. I can say honestly, that when I met him, he was very charming. A few dates later, and meeting his work friends, I needed a shower to remove the slimeyness. The callousness that prevails in government assistance programs extends to the personnel's personal lives.
All he did was complain about the "trashy people that were using the system because of disasters". We even got into a heated argument regarding my own FEMA claim denial and subsequent hearings.
All in all, it's a good thing the discussions in Congress about shutting down FEMA and making a different group. Though I'm pretty sure they will just hire all the old FEMA people back. LOL
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
25 Oct 08
FEMA-FILTH. I wonder if there's gonna be a new icky with the FEMA label.
I can understand you wanting a shower. Sorry, but my weird sense of humor is peeking at FEMA slime.
I can understand you wanting a shower. Sorry, but my weird sense of humor is peeking at FEMA slime. @twoey68 (13627)
• United States
23 Oct 08
Well, I've lived in trailers before so I know that they contain formaldehyde in them...I believe it's mostly in the insulation. I think it's both sides fault...FEMA should have looked into it immediately and if ppl were having severe allergic reactions or their kids were getting sick then they should have looked into moving somewhere else. I have a feeling that FEMA is going to be stuck bailing ppl out of the problems from Katrina for a long time...at least some of the ppl...some have moved on and are re-building their lives.
[b]~~IN SEARCH OF PEACE WITHIN~~
**AGAINST THE STORMS, I WILL STAND STRONG** [/b]
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
23 Oct 08
I think if a resident of a trailer has a baby that gets sick, (one baby in this news story suffered a bloody nose severe enough for hospitalization) FEMA should step in and move that resident to a non-toxic residence for the sake of public relations if nothing else. Instead FEMA said moving is on the nonexistent dime of the refugees...to hell with the baby.
@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
25 Oct 08
The question is are there any available shelters in these areas?
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
23 Oct 08
All I'm saying is that yes, FEMA should have taken care of it sooner but at the same time if my baby was having nosebleeds severe enough to require hospital care, and I knew it was b/c of a problem with the trailer, I'd move...if I had to move out and stay in a shelter till I could find a place. I wouldn't just sit there letting my baby get sicker every day, just like if I had severe allergies as one man said he had...I wouldn't just sit there doing nothing.
[b]~~IN SEARCH OF PEACE WITHIN~~
**AGAINST THE STORMS, I WILL STAND STRONG**[/b]
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
23 Oct 08
This is great, first FEMA leaves these people in the trailers forever, and them being substandard and toxic, now they say its the people's fault?!? This is a mess. And of the things they cited, cooking??? I guess they were always supposed to eat out instead of cooking in their substandard temporary home they've been living in for the past how many years? I know they won't be getting any donations from me in the future, if this is how they are going to spend them.
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