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43. FEMA Director Brownie II. Where is Gen Russell Honore when we need him? nt

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FEMA Director: "... we can't get enough truck drivers in ... " bullshit !!! [View all] uponit7771 Sep 2017 OP

Exactly SHRED Sep 2017 #1

There are 3 million people living in Puerto Rico FLPanhandle Sep 2017 #2

Exactly what I was thinking too Sanity Claws Sep 2017 #3

CDL is an entry level job that sometimes pays $100k Not Ruth Sep 2017 #6

You're funny, no entry level cdl driver Ever makes a 100k a year. sarcasmo Sep 2017 #15

When you include overtime, truck drivers in the province are earning up to $170,000 Not Ruth Sep 2017 #16

Then they make 3 times more than truck drivers in the states. sarcasmo Sep 2017 #61

I had a CDL until recently... DAMANgoldberg Sep 2017 #95

Exactly. Now owning your own truck it's tough to make 75 grand a year cause regulations. sarcasmo Sep 2017 #96

In this time and place tazkcmo Sep 2017 #58

RIGHT !!! uponit7771 Sep 2017 #7

That's not the issue. They don't have gas to put in their cars to drive to the ports, pnwmom Sep 2017 #39

I have friends down there to respond Drahthaardogs Sep 2017 #77

Offer them food, water and a safe place to stay for them and their families csziggy Sep 2017 #84

Just fast track CDL training for locals Not Ruth Sep 2017 #4

There isn't time. There isn't even gas to put in their cars to get them to the ports. The military pnwmom Sep 2017 #40

What About 'Copter Drops? Me. Sep 2017 #5

Even better !! Its not like the US doesn't have a couple of million of those. uponit7771 Sep 2017 #8

Seems wasteful unless you coordinate first Not Ruth Sep 2017 #11

What's Stopping Them From Coordinating? Me. Sep 2017 #13

Nothing Not Ruth Sep 2017 #14

No cell service for one. nt hack89 Sep 2017 #20

The UN should send telecom people to set up cell service Not Ruth Sep 2017 #29

satellite phone mahannah Sep 2017 #33

in the first drops... trust me, if people hear or see the copters lapfog_1 Sep 2017 #48

Powdered milk and dgibby Sep 2017 #27

Most cities in PR -- Hell Hath No Fury Sep 2017 #74

If FEMA hadn't commandeered malaise Sep 2017 #9

Yes, it seems like FEMA is taking half ass'd steps ...there's no reason why there isn't distribution uponit7771 Sep 2017 #10

I heard reports yesterday of FEMA reps in air-conditioned offices mulling around HipChick Sep 2017 #32

Look after the Dems held that news conference this morning both the WH and malaise Sep 2017 #72

When I was in the Navy, dgibby Sep 2017 #47

It's hard to watch malaise Sep 2017 #73

The excuses being given are to try to divert the blame away from trump Gothmog Sep 2017 #12

Is it literally just the drivers that they need? thesquanderer Sep 2017 #17

Gen. Russel Honore, who turned Katrina around, said the military should have been prepositioned pnwmom Sep 2017 #44

Aren't a huge number of roads totally destroyed? PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #18

That is why we need drones Not Ruth Sep 2017 #31

And the drones can carry how big a payload? PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #34

Both destryed and blocked by downed trees TexasBushwhacker Sep 2017 #71

Heavy equipment operators and heavy road clearing equipment also. brush Sep 2017 #86

I suspect you don't know WTF you are talking about... Baconator Sep 2017 #19

Come again, I don't speak MAGA uponit7771 Sep 2017 #22

LOL Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #26

Sigh.. Really? Baconator Sep 2017 #30

Trump, his funkies and his henchmen are by no means "professionals" Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2017 #35

Mixed bag at best... Baconator Sep 2017 #41

lol ... Red Don is "a coach" ?! lol ... again, I don't speak MAGA ... uponit7771 Sep 2017 #36

Try English then... Baconator Sep 2017 #42

Fuck Trump and those who normalize him by thinking he's got his shit together... clear? uponit7771 Sep 2017 #46

Literally has nothing to do with what we are talking about... Baconator Sep 2017 #53

Bull fuckin shit, buck stops with him ... PERIOD !!! uponit7771 Sep 2017 #57

Easy for internet posturing... Baconator Sep 2017 #67

Fact Not in dispute: Buck Stops With Donald Trump! Don't believe someone on DU opposes that uponit7771 Sep 2017 #68

The US got supplies to Iraq an Afghanistan somehow IronLionZion Sep 2017 #21

+1 uponit7771 Sep 2017 #24

Are there gassed up trucks for them to drive B2G Sep 2017 #25

It was on MSNBC, trucks are at the docs and FEMA has the fuel but no one to drive the trucks uponit7771 Sep 2017 #37

This is standard procedure for the MILITARY, who should have been ready to go. pnwmom Sep 2017 #45

Just heard that !!! These fucks pretty much ignored the obvious apocalyptic devistation around the uponit7771 Sep 2017 #51

The people who might drive trucks don't have fuel in their cars to get to the ports. This is a job pnwmom Sep 2017 #52

our military has ways of getting stuff to places with no infrastructure IronLionZion Sep 2017 #55

Yes. And expecting this to be on the shoulders on the traumatized civilians who live there pnwmom Sep 2017 #65

IKR !?!?!? What the hell about apocalyptic devastation does Captain Fuck Up not understand ?! uponit7771 Sep 2017 #63

The message here? matt819 Sep 2017 #23

In the days following D Day SCVDem Sep 2017 #28

+1 uponit7771 Sep 2017 #38

FEMA Director Brownie II. Where is Gen Russell Honore when we need him? nt No Vested Interest Sep 2017 #43

He's speaking out strongly. He says they should have prepositioned the military and that pnwmom Sep 2017 #50

They sure the fuck did mercuryblues Sep 2017 #93

The Governor of PR sarisataka Sep 2017 #49

BOOM !! uponit7771 Sep 2017 #60

Thinking it through sarisataka Sep 2017 #64

They need gasoline to get the trucks running. Lil Missy Sep 2017 #54

They got that, confiscated by FEMA ... it was on MSNBC ... gas and vehicles and no one to drive uponit7771 Sep 2017 #59

Okay, how about .... the orange jackass running the country was too busy stirring shit Lil Missy Sep 2017 #88

that is ridiculous. drray23 Sep 2017 #56

Right, how much would it cost to tell some drivers here they'd get paid 300 an hour to truck out to uponit7771 Sep 2017 #62

The government's response(or lack thereof) to this disaster dgibby Sep 2017 #66

Now this is crazy, but are we living in the dark ages???? bdamomma Sep 2017 #69

Thank you, putting this in the OP uponit7771 Sep 2017 #70

They. Can't Call. The. Drivers. NickB79 Sep 2017 #75

You could hire those little planes that drag banners by the beach to get the word out Not Ruth Sep 2017 #76

Thinking outside the box NickB79 Sep 2017 #78

Somehow I don't think banners about wet t-shirt contests would bring them in. rzemanfl Sep 2017 #80

Banners won't put gasoline in the cars of the truckers who don't live near the ports. pnwmom Sep 2017 #81

Because that is where the money is Not Ruth Sep 2017 #87

None of these traumatized civilians are or will become "essential personnel" with special access pnwmom Sep 2017 #89

Yes. AND the drivers are living in houses with the roofs blown off, pnwmom Sep 2017 #79

Right, cause their environment is destroyed ?! What about apocalyptic do people not understand?! uponit7771 Sep 2017 #82

After hurricane Andrew... Sedona Sep 2017 #83

I don't know all the facts here, but I do know the situation in Grand Cayman after Ivan onenote Sep 2017 #85

Caymans is a British isle too, you'd think they'd have their stuff together but they're thousands of uponit7771 Sep 2017 #91

I am not linking because it is from a questionable newspaper, but those poor animals, just horrible Not Ruth Sep 2017 #90

I have a CDL DiverDave Sep 2017 #92

Ah man, hope you get whats needed so you can go ... from the post above it looks like its not just uponit7771 Sep 2017 #94

One Transportation Unit in the US Army has a lot of truck drivers. kentuck Sep 2017 #97