Word: fema
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...April 1990, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) placed Grand Tower on probation from the National Insurance Program for failing to adhere to guidelines intended to mitigate risk of flood damage. Among the guidelines: newly constructed buildings, and some existing ones undergoing significant upgrades, had to be raised some 12 feet. That's partly because major floods were projected to send at least 10 feet of water into town. Federal authorities imposed a $25 surcharge on residents' insurance policies, hoping it would pressure elected officials to comply with the guidelines...
...speech he compared FEMA’s inefficient Katrina response to the precision of private shipping firms like UPS and FedEx. He said, “U.P.S., FedEx and Wal-Mart can tell in real time where a package is anywhere in the world, but FEMA, despite its multibillion-dollar budget, couldn’t track many of its assets during its Katrina response…” Similarly, when Congress gathered to assess the costs of Katrina in October 2005, McCain was quick to cut budget spending to accommodate the billions of dollars required for emergency relief efforts...
Greensburg residents were understandably skeptical. Many were still living in the clusters of trailers nicknamed FEMA-villes, and they were more concerned with getting any kind of roof over their heads than with the quality of its insulation. "There was resistance to change," says Gene West, the county commissioner. "This is a rural area and a conservative...
...FEMA's Toxic Trailers...
...complaints--breathing difficulties and nosebleeds--have been trickling in for more than two years from some of the 38,000 families still displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita who live in FEMA trailers. The suspicions--that the trailers themselves caused the health problems--were confirmed only on Feb. 14. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the 519 sampled trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi typically contained an average of about five times the acceptable level of formaldehyde gas, a carcinogen. FEMA says it will attempt to relocate all residents before the summer...