So Mike Brown is a paid consultant for FEMA now....

[ShaneGR]

His fantastic consultations must be why we're doing so well with Rita!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/27/rita.victims.ap/index.html

Port Arthur Mayor Oscar Ortiz, whose own home was destroyed by fire after the hurricane, said "we've had 101 promises" for aid, "but it's all bureaucracy." He and other officials gathered at a hotel-turned-command center, where a dirty American flag found among hurricane debris was hung on the wall.

John Owens, emergency management coordinator and deputy police chief in the town of 57,000, said pleas for state and federal relief were met with requests for paperwork.

"We have been living like cavemen, sleeping in cars, doing bodily functions outside," he said.

Temperatures climbed into the upper 90s, and officials worried that swarms of mosquitoes might spread disease.

In Beaumont, officials briefed President Bush, Texas Gov. Rick Perry at his side, on relief efforts. Perry cautioned against criticism.

[etherealtruth]

1. Makes me feel safer : (

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Perry has a lot of nerve

bet he never spent a night in a car, knowing that everything he'd worked for had gone up in flames.

[babylonsister]

3. "Perry cautioned against criticism?" WTF?

What ever happened to freedom of speech? This just further proves the whole scenario today was a big fat photo-op. Stay home, blivet, and save your gas.

[celestia671]

4. What a friend of mine told me....

so I have no link or anything, but she had talked to some people who were still waiting on Fema for damage related to Hurricane Lily!