FEMA

Some of you reading this post may be upset with me, but this is my thoughts. I think this is wrong in every way. While dad and I where driving to our designation to go to the diamond mine in Hope, Arkansas we came upon this. Field after field after field of camper trailers. Hundreds of thousands. LITERALLY. Campers where lined up one after another for achers. These pictures are not the same field. I could not get a good picture like I wanted to. In some of them you get an "idea" on how far back the rows went. The hurricane effected a lot of families. I was aware that FEMA provided these temporary homes to the victims. I just never thought what would happen to the trailers after the families was back on there feet. On top of FEMA having to make the purchase, which if you watched the news many of the families did not take care of them. But who does take care of things that are free? Now they are left in a field. Wasted money just setting there. Can you imagine the money every month going to the storage of these campers? I just can not believe that they can't find anything else to do with them. Nothing? No one can think of anything better to do with these. No, a camper isn't your 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom eat in kitchen home in the suburbans. But it provides shelter. A roof that someone out there doesn't have right now tonight as we are laying warm in our beds. I just think what a waste. Yes the hurricane victims needed them. I have no doubt in my mine. It is just sad that for what ever reason why they now just set parked. I have a couple of ideas off the top of my head. Try to sell the ones that wasn't destroyed by the families. They where new. They did not go through the hurricane. Not all of them where damaged by the families that just didn't care. We are talking about thousands of trailers. Looking at them MANY looked as if they still never had been lived in. Surely some could be auctioned. The remaining ones, how about we strip them down. Take all the metal off of them. The plastic and any and everything else we can and recycle the parts. That field is FULL of recyclables. The trailers did the purpose for the families now it is time to recycle them. I would love to see on the news that FEMA decided to recycle them, then to hear that they will be spending however much money a month for the storage for however long to do god knows what with. Former President Clinton came from Hope, AK. Maybe this is his land and FEMA is paying him for the storage. WHO KNOWS?