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...Mississippi and 1605 for Alabama, plus one for every state taking in evacuees. For months and perhaps years to come, those codes will be used by the Federal Government to pay for, and keep track of, the billions of dollars required to rebuild. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will end up reimbursing the Coast Guard for fuel used to power helicopters in rescue missions, the city of New Orleans for the overtime of its police and fire departments, and Houston for the costs of housing evacuees in the Astrodome...
...part of that expanded oversight, FEMA is sending some 30 auditors to the Gulf to follow the money. Not to be outdone, Congress has its own team of 24 investigators hot on the FEMA auditors' heels. But unless the President appoints an independent czar to oversee the entire reconstruction operation, Democrats and Republicans alike fear it may be as poorly managed as the initial response to the storm. FEMA's track record before Katrina isn't too encouraging: during last year's $2 billion cleanup of Hurricane Frances, millions of relief dollars ended up in the hands of residents...
...even after last week's resignation of FEMA director Michael Brown, it may be a long time before the agency stops being politicians' favorite punching bag. No wonder the challenge of spending all that money seems to hold no joy for those grinding away at FEMA's National Response Coordination Center located in a sad annex behind a southwest Washington Holiday Inn. "The size of it is daunting. The speed with which it needs to be delivered is very difficult," says Bob Spaulding, project manager for Fluor Corp., one of the companies awarded $100 million to help provide temporary housing...
...cant pre-empt a hurricane, but you can pre-empt the worst of its devastation if you see these things comingas the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did with New Orleans way back...
Will we allow one foreseeable catastrophe after another to cut down our proudest cities, one by one? For now, the good old boys at FEMA and Homeland Security can cross New York and New Orleans off the top of their list of likely disasters. Whats next...