(FEMA) Trailer storage costs mount

[DogPoundPup]

Source: The Advocate

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is paying more than $2 million a year to lease privately owned land in Louisiana to store thousands of travel trailers, most of which are expected to be sold for scrap.

The trailers to be scrapped are small travel models with levels of formaldehyde that limit FEMA’s ability to resell them for use by the public.

The once-ubiquitous white trailers, deployed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, are parked just inches apart and spread like blankets of snow across farm fields in remote areas of Pointe Coupee and St. Landry parishes.

FEMA is paying $79,467 a month to lease one 447-acre Pointe Coupee site and $101,888 a month for a similarly sized tract in St. Landry, according to contract documents The Advocate obtained through a U.S. Freedom of Information Act request

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[acmavm]

1. What the fuck, is the dirt gold-plated? The US government has no land

of its own to park these trailers on? Or did they give it all out the mining and logging companies and other special interest corporations? .

[Dem2theMax]

2. I wonder WHO owns the land the trailers are on?

Just a thought. :evilgrin:

[MadMaddie]

3. A Republican