Much of Lower Manhattan was without power for days after Sandy. Photo via Wikipedia. “There are many people who are still suffering,” said Ann Dibble, director of the Storm Response Unit at N.Y. Legal Assistance Group. “We are seeing a lot of homeowners who are struggling to get insurance payments, whether it’s homeowners or flood. We’re still helping people with FEMA appeals, believe it or not.” Who wrote those words in the past week? A conservative outlet like Daily Caller, Breitbart, or the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page? No, it was the liberal New York Daily News. When Hurricane Sandy came onshore, with more hope than experience, the New York Times editorialized, “A Big Storm Requires Big Government” and extolled the virtues of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. As anyone who has read Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather knows, unless you count the number of PR photo ops FEMA creates for itself by hiring local photographers right after a storm occurs, it fails at most everything it does, especially when measured against its self-generated hype. One might come to the conclusion (after reading Warnings as well as this piece) that I enjoy beating up on FEMA. I concede they… Read full this story
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