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I am sitting here in the Naples, Fla area, first striking point of Hurricane
Wilma this past early Monday morning.
While this hurricane was not as catastropic to us as Katrina was to
Louisiana/Mississipi, the "number" done on the electrical grid was the
most devastating in U.S. Natural disaster history. No earthquake, no
flood, no previous hurricane had destroyed the electric like Wilma.
Almost 90% of us in South Florida are without power.
In the Collier County(Naples) area, it was announced yesterday that
there would be 8 designated Fema locations open until 7pm last
night distributing water and Ice. While in my home we were well prepared
with water, ice is not exactly something you can stock up on. Once
you lose electric, you have to keep replenishing what you have thrown
in your refrigerator regularly.
Anyway of 8 Fema locations announced for pickup of ice/water, only
2 of them someone from Fema/National Guard actually showed up!
And at one of the two, they were 4 hours late while 1,000 people
waited on line for them to come only to find there was water but
no ice! Not knowing this had happened, I showed up at this location
at 6pm, only to find 100 national guardsmen standing around with
their hands in their pockets, no water and no ice, no nothing! I then
spent 3 more hours hunting for ice and finally found it at the only
operating Publix Grocery store with full power including waiting on
line there 1.5 hours with 70 or so desperate people.
Once again Fema and the U.S. has failed its own people. When are
Americans going to understand we need leadership here that puts
our own people first, rather than people half way around the world!
From Hurricane Hell, Naples, Fla. area
WORLDSPAN
P.S. Try and eat 7 bodybuilder meals a day in this scenario!
I am sitting here in the Naples, Fla area, first striking point of Hurricane
Wilma this past early Monday morning.
While this hurricane was not as catastropic to us as Katrina was to
Louisiana/Mississipi, the "number" done on the electrical grid was the
most devastating in U.S. Natural disaster history. No earthquake, no
flood, no previous hurricane had destroyed the electric like Wilma.
Almost 90% of us in South Florida are without power.
In the Collier County(Naples) area, it was announced yesterday that
there would be 8 designated Fema locations open until 7pm last
night distributing water and Ice. While in my home we were well prepared
with water, ice is not exactly something you can stock up on. Once
you lose electric, you have to keep replenishing what you have thrown
in your refrigerator regularly.
Anyway of 8 Fema locations announced for pickup of ice/water, only
2 of them someone from Fema/National Guard actually showed up!
And at one of the two, they were 4 hours late while 1,000 people
waited on line for them to come only to find there was water but
no ice! Not knowing this had happened, I showed up at this location
at 6pm, only to find 100 national guardsmen standing around with
their hands in their pockets, no water and no ice, no nothing! I then
spent 3 more hours hunting for ice and finally found it at the only
operating Publix Grocery store with full power including waiting on
line there 1.5 hours with 70 or so desperate people.
Once again Fema and the U.S. has failed its own people. When are
Americans going to understand we need leadership here that puts
our own people first, rather than people half way around the world!
From Hurricane Hell, Naples, Fla. area
WORLDSPAN
P.S. Try and eat 7 bodybuilder meals a day in this scenario!
