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Camp FEMA Update

hypocritexposer

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Camp FEMA Update: “We Feel Like We’re In a Concentration Camp”

Though details are scarce and media coverage has been completely restricted by officials, stories of what victims of Hurricane Sandy are experiencing at the hands of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the wake of the storm have begun to emerge.

The few available images from these so-called “tent cities” suggest that Camp FEMA isn’t all it’s cut out to be, with one resident using some choice words to describe how FEMA and the Red Cross have completely failed at their jobs.

http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/camp-fema-update-we-feel-like-were-in-a-concentration-camp_11112012
 

hypocritexposer

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The post-storm housing — a refugee camp on the grounds of the Monmouth Park racetrack – is in lockdown, with security guards at every door, including the showers.

No one is allowed to go anywhere without showing their I.D. Even to use the bathroom, “you have to show your badge,” said Amber Decamp, a 22-year-old whose rental was washed away in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.

The mini city has no cigarettes, no books, no magazines, no board games, no TVs, and no newspapers or radios. On Friday night, in front of the mess hall, which was serving fried chicken and out-of-the-box, just-add-water potatoes, a child was dancing and dancing — to nothing. “We’re starting to lose it,” said Decamp. “But we have nowhere else to go.”
 

gmacbeef

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Hey oldtimer, it's real presidential how your man Oblamea has TOTALLY FORGOTTEN the East coast ,after the election........... :evil:
 

Larrry

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We need Bush and Brownie to handle this. These guys running this now are completely inept.

Disease from these unhealthy conditions will set in soon

we told ya so
 

Faster horses

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hypocritexposer said:
Sure is funny that these people can find ID to take a leak, but not to vote. :???:

Yes, it sure is.

Wonder where the Salvation Army is. :???: We never give to the Red Cross because we don't feel they are a very good organization, but we always
give to the Salvation Army. If you look into it, very little goes to administration of the Salvation Army, different story with the Red Cross.
When my father was in the service he needed emergency leave to come home and the Red Cross would do nothing for him, but the Salvation Army
helped him, so my folks never gave to the Red Cross either.
 

Steve

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Sabol was told that she had half an hour to pack: everyone was getting shipped to hotels in Wildwood, New Jersey, where they would be able to re-acquaint themselves with showers, beds and a door.

yep, just promise them a free weekend in Wildwood and they climbed right into the buses, :?

We had heard word they may try to bus everyone in but I think the mayor put a stop to it.. sending thousands of unemployed to another seasonal city on the coast just didn't make sense.. besides most hotels are already closed and the others are overfilled with Camden's dislocated chronically unemployed..

(in other words " don't dump your problem here" we have enough of your problems already.. )
 

Traveler

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Media restrictions? Like the media would report on anything that would damage their messiah, but it does sound like a dictatorship.
 

Steve

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The Asbury Park Press managed to talk with internees who described huddling in freezing cold tents with Blackhawk helicopters circling above.

“The elections are over and here we are,” a resident told the Asbury Park Press. “There were Blackhawk helicopters flying over all day and night. They have heavy equipment moving past the tents all night.”

He said FEMA stopped them from taking photos of “Camp Freedom” and turned off the WiFi and said they couldn’t charge their smart phones because there wasn’t enough power. “Every time we plugged in an iPhone or something, the cops would come and unplug them,” he said.

The man described the “micro-city” (as FEMA calls it) as a prison. The Red Cross promised facilities with washing machines and hot showers, but sent victims to live in unheated tents.

FEMA’s response is predictable. After all, it was designed for martial law and rounding up and interning people in concentration camps. FEMA’s disaster response role in basically a sham and a public relations front.

“At (Pine Belt) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. We got (expletive),” distraught Oceanport camp resident Brian Sotelo said.

Today, Christie tried to salvage FEMA’s reputation and deflect negative criticism by praising utility crews and labeling the storm as the main perpetrator of all the suffering

is it really awful? ... I doubt it.. if there wasn't enough security, many others would complain.. but stopping pictures, and communication is un-needed in any free society..

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was quoted as saying:

“I mean, I can’t build them apartments right now, in the next week, so we’re gonna get them as close to their homes as we can get them. But I can’t wave a magic wand and create housing.”

100′s of thousands of people remain without power as emergency crews work day and night.

CBS reported, “Sandy’s destruction has left thousands of people homeless for the foreseeable future. FEMA estimates 101,000 people in New York and New Jersey qualify for hotel subsidies and 56,000 people qualify for help renting a new home or fixing a damaged one. And the agency’s moving in several hundred mobile homes into the hurricane zone.”

And if this is not enough for you yet or if it is all unbelievable, in New York City they are now using prison facilities as temporary housing facilities for displaced citizens, solving the need for portable FEMA camps.

The state is eyeing the recently shuttered Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on Staten Island as a temporary home for people displaced by the ravages of Sandy and this week’s nasty nor’easter, officials said yesterday.

Closed last December, the medium-security prison could feed and sleep as many as 900 people with nowhere else to go.

“Our facilities staff have to go through it to determine what it would take to get it up and running for such a purpose,” said Peter Cutler, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections.

Displaced Sandy victims could be housed in dorms at Staten Island’s shuttered Arthur Kill Correctional Facility — razor wire and all.

“Of course, the challenge is the fact that it was closed a year ago and all of the major infrastructure components, such as boilers and wastewater system, were deactivated.”

There are as many as 40,000 New Yorkers who need shelter from the one-two punch of extreme weather events, according to city estimates.

On Staten Island alone, about 5,200 people applied for temporary FEMA housing, but only about two dozen people have been successfully placed, federal sources said.

So it may resemble a scene out of “The Walking Dead,” but officials and displaced people alike say the former prison ought to be considered as a refuge.

there is already a rental shortage due to the housing crash.. finding permanent homes for stable families will be difficult, but finding homes for the chronically unemployed will be near impossible..

an old prison may be the only answer.. to allow security and safety for those who were already living outside the mainstream..

but at least let them charge up their phones.. and allow the press to visit.. I would bet the grateful outnumber the grumbling..
 

Steve

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Traveler said:
Media restrictions? Like the media would report on anything that would damage their messiah, but it does sound like a dictatorship.

we used to joke, that a uniform and a walkie-talkie in the hands of rented security somehow caused authoritarian syndrome.. now they only need a fancy jacket.. with a fema or homeland security patch..

keeping the press out and limiting communications is plain stupid.. let them take pictures.. let them have wifi, charge their phones.. most will play games and call friends.. a few might take pictures..

the pictures might outrage a few bleeding heart liberals,.. but most Americans will wonder what the ungrateful --- s are bitching about...
 

Zilly

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The facility worked and still seems to be working fine as housing for all of the out of state utility crews. Which probably explains all of the security... Keeping the displaced away from the workers. And let's be honest, some of those displaced are not outstanding citizens. Just look what they are complaining about... Cigarettes and wifi. Having no security would make a bad situation worse, as would allowing radios with everyone wanting to listen to their music.

As for entertainment, I'm not sure who runs this camp, but a quick search shows that the Red Cross recommends bringing entertainment (books, magazines, board games, etc.). I realize this is difficult to do IF you decided to leave after your house was damaged, but if you evacuated before hand, there isn't much of an excuse. There was plenty of warning about the storm coming. I'm not trying to be harsh, but it sounds like a select few are realizing that "free stuff", isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
 
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