[IP] so much for TSA employees
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From: Hugh Crawford <hugh-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 22, 2005 2:13:12 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] so much for TSA employees
And it seems, so much for FEMA employees as well .
FEMA Workers Leave Galveston Ahead of Rita
Sept. 21, 2005 — Galveston, Texas, faces a mandatory evacuation order
as Hurricane Rita threatens to strike — and apparently, that means
the feds, too.
The Federal Emergency Management Administration has ordered a local
team of nine support staffers providing relief to Hurricane Katrina
refugees to evacuate the Texas city and county.
"There is a mandatory evacuation [and] we're not above the law," said
Frank Mansell, a FEMA reservist who was the senior federal officer at
Galveston. "We obey the laws of the local authorities."
Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said mayors of all the towns in the
coastal barrier island county would formally issue the mandatory
evacuation order this evening.
"At six o'clock or shortly thereafter, the inbound lane on the
causeway will be closed by the department of public safety," Thomas
said, according to ABC News Radio.
Thomas told ABC News' Mike von Fremd that she would be staying in
Galveston to manage the evacuation. She said the state of Texas had
positioned supplies and National Guard troops nearby, so they would
be ready if needed.
"I don't know about FEMA," she said. "We're doing what we need to do
right now. And we hope that wherever FEMA is, they'll help us when we
need them."
Katrina Relief
In Galveston, the FEMA team was operating a disaster recovery center
with other agencies and aid organizations — helping Katrina victims
get answers to their questions, housing, jobs and aid.
With most Katrina refugees in Galveston already placed in apartments,
the local shelter was almost empty, Mansell said. So once the
remaining shelter residents had been evacuated, the FEMA workers
would head inland to Dallas, where they would work with a similar
team assisting Katrina victims.
A permanent relocation of the Galveston recovery center was possible,
"depending upon how much damage there is to Galveston" from a
possible Rita strike, Mansell said.
ABC News' Luis Martinez and Michael S. James contributed to this report.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/HurricaneRita/story?id=1146061
David Farber wrote:
Mayor of Houston says big big delays at Houston airport since 120
plus TSAers did not show for duty
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