FEMA putting your tax dollars to hard work...LOL

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FEMA...What a joke.

It costed them $13 Million Dollars to store left over ice from 2 years ago and then they had to pay a company $3 Million dollars to melt the ice!!

$3 Million Dollars to melt ice??? WTF!! LMFAO..

Town of Geddes, Onondaga County (WSYR-TV) - Federal lawmakers are asking questions about the government waste story we broke on NewsChannel 9 on July 6.

The move by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, was to throw away 85 million pounds of ice that it bought and never used. A Town of Geddes company is among the places where that ice is now being disposed of. Thursday, Congressman Jim Walsh and Senator Chuck Schumer spoke out.

We all helped pay for it, and drop by drop, it's melting away. Left-over ice, purchased by FEMA in advance for hurricanes that never came.

You can only store ice for so long, before it's no longer safe to use, so $24 million worth is going down the drain. The Americold company plant on Farrell Road in Geddes is among the places where the government stored the ice and is now letting it melt.

Americold has put out more surplus FEMA ice to be disposed of, and federal representatives are asking questions about it.

After NewsChannel 9 brought it to his attention, Congressman Jim Walsh fired a letter off to FEMA this week.

The letter asks 5 direct questions: What does FEMA spend annually on ice for emergency response? Was the ice left over from hurricanes Katrina and Rita? Has this happened in previous years? Does FEMA have a set protocol for storage and use of emergency response ice? And, exactly what efforts were made to find a use for this ice prior to the determination to discard it?

While Walsh waits for answers, Senator Chuck Schumer has his own suggestion.

Schumer says, “Instead of actually buying the ice, they should have just had contracts for it in case they needed it, and they would pay a much lower amount, until they needed it. In this case they didn't need it, and would've saved a whole lot of money.”

Schumer says FEMA has improved, overall, since the fiasco in New Orleans but he says, in many ways, it's the same inefficient agency that reacted so badly after Hurricane Katrina.

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why didnt they pay $1 million to ship it to a country that needs ice instead of letting it melt? or do something more useful with the ice..

what a bunch of fucktards