Vice President Biden and his lovely wife Jill were in Colorado on Monday. The President is scheduled to be there on November 1, 2013 but may go there much sooner and as his time permits. The good people of Colorado have indeed suffered flooding, death, and destruction without precedence in recorded history. Every disaster agency of the Federal Government is now represented in Colorado with strict orders from the President to do all they can to abrogate the disasters and provide all relief necessary to sustain the good but presently desperate people there.
Is there more that you had in mind?
Petula
Wonder how many Obama haters are going to turn down the federal disaster aid </rhetorical>.
Bush was there, he flew right over New Orleans on his way home from his record long vacation. I saw a photo where he even looked out the window of Air Force One.
Did Obama fly over Colorado?
Cuz it sux!
Repeat that often, I hope everybody believes you.
People in CO aren't going to get much aid to rebuild homes. FEMA helps those who had flood insurance to begin with, most of these people did not. It wasn't required by their mortgage companies, they weren't in a flood plain, in fact they were high in the hills.
Anyway, agreeable to the rules set down for FEMA, most Coloradans will not receive much in direct aid. There are a great many homes that will simply rot where they are because the owners don't even have the money to remove the damaged structure and their home owner's insurance will not cover flood damage.
People in CO aren't going to get much aid to rebuild homes. FEMA helps those who had flood insurance to begin with, most of these people did not. It wasn't required by their mortgage companies, they weren't in a flood plain, in fact they were high in the hills.
Anyway, agreeable to the rules set down for FEMA, most Coloradans will not receive much in direct aid. There are a great many homes that will simply rot where they are because the owners don't even have the money to remove the damaged structure and their home owner's insurance will not cover flood damage.
Hey, I am actually in the preliminary stages of planning a trip to Denver. My wife and I want to get away somewhere cooler than here, and the tickets to Denver are cheap to Denver. $188 RT! Do you have any recommendations for a reasonably priced hotel or town west of Denver, maybe in the mountains but not so far away we would spend a half a day getting there?
You, sir, are a total liar and completely un-informed about what FEMA does and is all about. I lost practically everything I owned in the Mississippi River flood of 2011. Because I had insurance FEMA had little assistance for me. On the other hand, other residents/property owners that lived in that flood-path and had no insurance whatsoever were compensated very handsomely by FEMA for the loss of their properties. Some, who only had a few hundred dollars invested in their dwellings that were sitting on rented land, received between $30,000 and $40,000 in disaster aid. As an insured I received only the difference between what my property was insured for and what FEMA decided I could replace it for, which was minimal.
The point here is that FEMA does not take care of the insured. It takes care of the un-insured. On another note, FEMA compensated all for removal of their condemned dwellings but only if their insurance would not pay for it. Those are the FACTS. All else is just hateful and ignorant bullshit.
Petula