Officials Beg Trump to Send Help After Storms Kill 20 Across South

[riversedge]

the pics are really devastating. I have not seen a followup to this story



Sarah Kendzior ?@sarahkendzior 1h1 hour ago

State officials are begging Trump to send help after tornado deaths Sunday. He's doing nothing. Read this story. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/officials-beg-trump-send-help-after-storms-kill-20-across-n711071 …




Jan 23 2017, 6:34 pm ET
Officials Beg Trump to Send Help After Storms Kill 20 Across South

by Alex Johnson and Daniella Silva
[At Least 20 Killed as Tornadoes, Severe Storms Hit Southeastern U.S.]
At Least 20 Killed as Tornadoes, Severe Storms Hit Southeastern U.S. 2:02

Desperate officials pleaded with President Donald Trump to send federal assistance Monday after at least 20 people were killed by storms and tornadoes that caused devastation authorities likened to the impact of a nuclear blast.............


Most of the 200 homes at the Paradise Village mobile home park in Albany were destroyed, Ross Piercy, the property manager, told NBC station WALB. About a dozen were completely washed away and can't be found, he said.

"It just hurts," Piercy said. "It hurts my heart to see how many people have nothing left." ...............

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said he had dispatched a letter to Trump pleading for help after four people were killed in his state. He said more 1,000 homes were damaged in Hattiesburg and surrounding Forrest County alone — 239 of which were obliterated.

[get the red out]

1. But

Trump is busy lying his ass off! No time to be President.

[Girard442]

2. This would be a slam-dunk for Trump.

He'd get to help his voters and be seen as a hero on TV.

If he doesn't run with this one, he really is a vedge.

[atreides1]

6. Those aren't his voters

Those are rubes who bought snake oil from a marketing genius...now that he's in the White House...he doesn't need them!

It was pretty clear on his "Victory Tour" that he didn't give a damn about them, he told them he wasn't going to lock her up, or drain the swamp...

Besides, those Trump voters are dumb enough to vote for him a second time, the ones that don't die in the next four years!!!

[LisaM]

3. The photos are heartbreaking.

I'm going to guess ShowerHead hasn't appointed a new head of FEMA yet.

[treestar]

4. First sign of incompetence

Doesn't know what he is supposed to prioritize.

[Motley13]

5. blotus is too busy destroying everything that the tornadoes didn't

He will get around to it, since it will be great photo ops, its all about him.

[underpants]

7. Yeah...um...how do we do that?

I think we have to sign something.
Yeah let's sign something.
No, HE has to sign something.
Yeah but he's in "TV time"
Well, pause it
PAUSE IT?!??? He'll know it's a tape! He thinks Wampner is still on everyday.

[louis-t]

8. drumpf doesn't give a fuck.

He's the anti-Christ.

[meadowlark5]

9. Maybe CNN and Fox should cover more tornado damage segements throughout the day

Since he's so busy watching tv and fretting about the popular vote numbers and the size of his inauguration crowd - if it were splashed across the tv for hours at a time he might see it and could get around to sending some aid their way.

[onethatcares]

11. "Meanwhile, as the president elect is

fretting about numbers of so called illegal voters. The residents of several towns are struggling to find a dry place to live"

When asked about his priorities, the p. e. said, "Fug em, they should have voter for her and besides Steven Kings extrapolations show they could have been illegals".

[meadowlark5]

12. LOL

But he's already making America so great!! At least the parts that aren't destroyed by severe whether, that is.

[malaise]

10. Obama would have had help on the gground already

Too sad

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Worse yet, he does not beleive in the very climate change that caused this disater.

These severe storms, which have been rolling thru for days now, are "normally" seen in March.
but our temps down here are 10-15 degrees above normal....ALL winter long.
tomorrow is forecast to be 80 degrees....fine for folks in So. Fla, not at all normal for folks in the lower South.

Really afraid to think what March is gonna bring.

[malaise]

15. Well there have been nearly three times the number of tornadoes this January

over last year and the month has another week.

[KittyWampus]

13. WHERE IS FEMA? Trump Not Ready On Day One!

[jmg257]

16. FEMA headed down starting today...interesting details too...

Teams from FEMA are expected to begin federal damage assessment in Forrest and Lamar counties Tuesday. After finishing up in those two counties, FEMA officials will move to Perry County for damage assessment. Public assistance teams, tasked with damage assessment of infrastructure, are expected to arrive in the area Wednesday.

So what we are hoping is that the disaster recovery centers will be established by the end of this week for individuals to come in and begin applying for aid," said Lee Smithson, executive director of MEMA. "When we go back to the 2013 (tornado), it was well over five days before displaced citizens could go in and start their registration. "So we're confident that it will be much, much faster than that because of the efforts of the people of this community. So we're looking forward to that."

Although officials said it was still too early to determine monetary damage, Smithson said the threshold for public assistance is $4.2 million in damage to infrastructure. For individual assistance, the threshold requires more than 250 homes to be damaged.
"So, obviously, we've met that threshold for individual assistance," Smithson said. "FEMA has gotten a lot better ... so if the information is correct, you could see the possibility of 10 to 14 business days from the time it gets processed (for individual assistance)."

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"In other words, in a normal setting, city services cannot be rendered to an individual's personal property — we can't go and move a tree for them," Council President Carter Carroll said. "But if we've got a tree that's leaning down and it's about to fall on a house or a car, we can (now) go in there and cut that tree down because it's a safety issue. "So it's very important to act under a state of emergency — it gives us the authority to establish a curfew, things like that." A curfew for the affected areas — from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. — was put in place by a 5-0 vote at Monday's meeting. Council also voted 5-0 to approve two items that approve requests for proposals for service related to removal of tornado debris.

"Because we're in a state of emergency, we don't have to advertise (bids) for 30 days — we only have to do it for five or six," Carroll said. "But if we don't do it this way, then we won't be reimbursed by FEMA. "So a lot of people are wondering why we're not acting faster — (that's because) we've just got to go through this bureaucratic process to make sure we get reimbursed."