For those of you not following Al Gore around the country like some kind of Dead-head, an ice storm has been gripping the heartland from the Plains to the East Coast. It’s been several days now and millions are without electricity or water. Kentucky seems to have been hit the hardest; of the 42 who have died from the bitter cold, eleven of them have been from that one state.
But Obama and FEMA is on the case, right? After all, even on his website, President Golden Calf says he would never allow his fellow citizens down in a crisis, like a certain previous administration did during a certain hurricane in a certain primarily black area of the country.
Actually, that has not happened. Less than two weeks into his presidency, President Golden Calf and FEMA have failed to make good on that promise:
At least 42 people have died, including 11 in Kentucky, and conditions are worsening in many places days after an ice storm knocked out power to 1.3 million customers from the Plains to the East Coast. About a million people were still without electric Friday, and with no hope that the lights will come back on soon, small communities are frantically struggling to help their residents. […]
Local officials were growing angry with what they said was a lack of help from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In Grayson County, about 80 miles southwest of Louisville, Emergency Management Director Randell Smith said the 25 National Guardsmen who have responded have no chain saws to clear fallen trees.
“We’ve got people out in some areas we haven’t even visited yet,” Smith said. “We don’t even know that they’re alive.”
Smith said FEMA has been a no-show so far.
“I’m not saying we can’t handle it; we’ll handle it,” Smith said. “But it would have made life a lot easier” if FEMA had reached the county sooner, he said. […]
… Since the storm began Monday, the weather is suspected in at least 11 deaths in Kentucky, nine more in Arkansas, six each in Texas and Missouri, three in Virginia, two each in Oklahoma, Indiana and West Virginia and one in Ohio, with most of them blamed on hypothermia, traffic accidents and carbon monoxide poisoning from generators.
Among the latest deaths reported were those of a man in his 60s, a woman in her 50s and a woman in her 40s who were found in a southwestern Louisville home Friday. The younger woman was found in bed; the other two were found in the garage, along with a generator, police spokesman Phil Russell said.
The fight to return power to Kentucky and other areas affected by the ice storm is difficult because of the sheer number of outages, but also because of the ice itself. Crews have joined the effort from around the country, but more than a half-million homes and businesses were still out in Kentucky on Friday, along with roughly 78,000 in Missouri and 284,000 in Arkansas. Thousands more were still in the dark in Ohio,Tennessee and West Virginia.
“As ice is melting, power lines and tree limbs are springing upward and hitting other power lines,” said Rita Alexander, spokeswoman for Gibson Electric Membership Corp. in Tennessee. “It is just an unpleasant part of the process.”
Jammie Wearing Fool was wondering the same thing I was:
Can you imagine the media reaction if this were George W. Bush? Heck, we’re still hearing about Hurricane Katrina nearly four years later.
Is Obama even aware what’s going on in Kentucky? I know he’s very busy between trashing Wall Street and Rush Limbaugh, but could he at least acknowledge these poor folks and get them some help?
He’s also been very busy sucking up to our America-hating Islamo-fascist enemies in the Middle East and Iran.
JWF commenter "Gabriel," who blogs at The Great Satan, says it best: Barack Obama doesn't care about white people.
Indeed. In my best Forrest Gump voice I’m thinking, Must be hawrd being the messiah ...
Don't even wait for the mainstream media to go bananas over Obama's absence from this crisis. Doesn't fit the template: Only white, Republican presidents can be accused of abandoning their fellow Americans and hating people of a different race.
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