F.E.M.A. fixed everything my a$$
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I live in Renssealer, NY USA.
There recently was a flood in part of our small city,
{Thank God not at my house}
Fema said not enough damage, and No,
we will
Not help the private citizens whose homes were damaged.
http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=3a0560a5-87d3-4bc1-8134-593cc77df939
The city of Rensselaer is getting some help from the state to fix some of the damage from last month's flooding.
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and others announcing the Senate is giving the city $1.1 million.
That's a drop in the bucket when you consider the city could really use about $30 million.
The Quackendary Creek that runs through the city of Rensselaer is merely a trickle now, compared to the torrent it was three weeks ago when 6 inches of rain fell on the city in a couple of hours.
The damage left behind is still being cleaned up and repairs to a culvert system to hold the creek in check are on hold because there is not enough money to do it.
Mayor Daniel Dwyer/D-Rensselaer: “Hardly anything really has been fixed. We've stabilized. That's all we can do at the moment. We don't have the money. It was never put into the budget because we never expected this.”
The city was rejected by the federal government, but a letter writing campaign started by Assemblyman Roy McDonald -- running for the Senate seat that represents Rensselaer -- prompted Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to pony up $1.1 million to help.
The money will come from a portion of the Senate’s capital budget that Skelos says is set up for purposes like this one.
Sen. Dean Skelos/R-Majority Leader: “This is what government should be about. We should respond to human needs. We should respond to our municipalities who are struggling in many instances to make ends meet.”
The people who live in the Hollow say they've heard it all before and they hope this isn't just another empty promise to make repairs to keep something like this from happening again.
Earl Brown/Resident: “This should have been done years ago. They don't listen to people. Oh, we'll put it off and put it off and put it off. Now something's happened and now we've got to do it.”
Patty Ciccone/Resident: “In 15 minutes we were in a raging river. We were looking like you do when you see people on the Mississippi, until you see it here, so we need to get this corrected.”
It is not clear just when the city will actually get the money.
Roy McDonald has also written to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Governor Paterson to see if they will match the Senate's contribution.
Silver's office says it is reviewing the matter.
No word yet from the governor's office.
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s548775.shtml?cat=10114
http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20105012&BRD=1170&PAG=461&dept_id=7021&rfi=6
