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[lliira]

Irma was no big deal here. We lost power for a day, but that's the extent of it. The rest of Florida got slammed, though. Lots of flooding.

For some reason, the governor's people are refusing to tell the media how many emergency crews they're sending out. I can't imagine why that would be treated as private information. Our governor is horrible, but I didn't think he was horribly corrupt, so I don't get what's going on there.

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[lliira]

The odd thing there is that the affluent places seem to have been hit hardest. That's where people could afford homes, condos, and businesses built right up to the coast. So they legitimately are the ones who need the most help. Naples got slammed to hell and back, for instance. And they need road and power crews and emergency supplies as much as anyone else. Plus (I have learned a lot from watching local news obsessively over the past week) individual county emergency departments have a LOT of say about what happens. For instance, the sheriff's department or something tried to call a curfew in my county Sunday night, and our EOC manager said "oh no you don't."

Really, I have no idea. Rick Scott's a snake, but this is weird. I'm wondering if his office is trying to hide that emergency funds got siphoned elsewhere. It wouldn't be the first time that happened in the South by a long shot. See: Katrina.

[silveradept]

That I would not be surprised about at all. Emergency dollars going somewhere else is one of those things that tends to appear when there's an actual emergency and the dollars that should be there aren't.