What do you get when you mix FEMA and Katrina and wait two years?
You get 12.5 million dollars of tax money literally down the drain.
When Katrina hit the US coast the destruction cause a great need of supplies and food, among these was the need of ice. FEMA, in their full greatness, sent thousands probably millions of pounds of ice to suffice the need of the people affected by the devastation. They did such a dandy job that they ended up with a surplus of ice. What to do with thousands of pounds of unused ice? Maybe put it away for future use?
Well that's what ended up happening and now its been two years and the ice is still being kept in storage up north, some even in Maine. Not so long ago a problem came up. The ice was for some reason is no longer safe for human consumption and is going to be melted and dumped.
All I have to say is bye-bye 12.5 million dollars. Money that was used for the transportation and storage of ice for two years.
So a few questions came to mind: Isn't it much cheaper to get new ice when needed than to store old ice for future use? how does ice all of a sudden become "unsafe"? and why isn't that ice being used for something more proactive instead of it being dumped?
That's whats in my mind today.
