Village Voice: Sandy has become New York's Katrina . . .

[sonofdaxjones]

and it was "only" a Category 1 storm, and not a "super storm".

As temperatures dropped toward freezing two weeks after the storm, residents in public-housing apartments from Red Hook to the Lower East Side to Rockaway were still without power, water, and heat. Displaced homeowners surveyed the wreckage of their lives and wondered how they'd ever build back. And almost everywhere, the vaunted presence of FEMA and the Red Cross was next to invisible. Weeks after the storm, many New Yorkers in storm-damaged neighborhoods had yet to see any sort of institutional relief at all.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-11-21/news/hurricane-sandy-is-new-york-s-katrina/

At the time, James's words seemed like an overstatement. Katrina displaced upwards of 1 million people and wreaked an estimated $150 billion in damages. Destructive as it was, Sandy didn't come close to that.

[p1k3]

FEMA is worthless. Get rid of the damn thing imo

["storm"nut]

Obama hates white people

[sonofdaxjones]

I wish I could find the actual article, but I saw one recently that discussed at length how state and local government's are underfunding Emergency Management because on anything significant, the Feds just come in and take over.