I read a story featured on Yahoo on FEMA closing relief centers because of the nor’easter coming in…something about the story sent my “antenna” up… so I looked at other sites and found that they were rightwingers…the search continued and I also found this:  http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/08/fema-responds-to-criticism-of-closure-of-mobile-centers-due-to-noreaster/

So…the rightwingers would rather more people were endangered staying in tents that offered no protection to the staffers nor folks visiting them…?

Other thoughts on the disaster of the East coast–many are still without power and they said on the news this morning that it is going to be after the holiday…what is the problem?  We have had storms like this in the past and I don’t recall it taking so long to restore power?  Why is there such a long delay?  Could it be that the utility companies, in a quest for bigger profits, have scaled back their work force?  I mean, this happened here, albeit on a smaller scale, when the 90-mph winds hit here this past June…power was off for a week at some locations.  The only reason we got power back on in our building was because we had a generator…even then, we had to wait for fuel for that generator.

… and why on Earth aren’t they saying anything about off-grid power?  Why aren’t they supplying people with solar panels and batteries so they could at least power the basic stuff?  Here’s another site on off-grid products and instruction.