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Skriven 2006-10-27 18:23:00 av JOAN MACDIARMID (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JIM WELLER
Ärende: Buffalo update
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 Hi, Jim,

 JM> My opinion
 JM> about FEMA is that they don't actually "manage"
 JM> emergencies, but arrange for reimbursements for
 JM> the local forces that do manage things.

 JW> New Orleans is still waiting for money. My impression is that they do
 JW> diddley squat.

 FEMA has disbursed quite a bit of money
 in the NO area, much of which was ripped
 off! That was not their finest hour, as
 the impending emergency of a major storm
 likely to hit a populated area was obvious,
 but no one on any level seemed to know who
 should be doing anything. The local forces,
 state and city, seemed to have done little
 planning, either. In our Buffalo mess, at
 least no one admitted to seeing it coming
 at all, the weather service was wrong! But
 the local forces swung into action rather
 nicely once they realized we had a problem.
 The snow plows cleared what they could
 where trees weren't down, the local power
 companies mobilized crews drawn from several
 states to start a massive restoration of the
 downed lines, police did man a few of the
 most dangerous intersections to direct traffic
 until the signals could be restored, and
 put out instructions about treating "dead"
 intersections as 4-way stops. Although we
 have now been declared an official "disaster
 area", I don't know if we should have
 qualified. Very few, if any, homes were
 destroyed totally, though a few got partially
 crunched by falling trees. The FEMA assistance
 should help, by grants or loans, restore homes
 made "unlivable" by loss of furnaces, water
 heaters or electrical panels in flooded
 basements (but only after insurance claims
 have been settled, which is one reason FEMA
 cash is slow to show up, but a reasonable
 reason.)

 NY State has helped out a lot, which is
 gratifying after our taxes have also helped
 Northern NY after a nasty ice storm some
 years back, after the floods in Central NY
 this spring (or last?) and of course the
 disaster in Manhattan in 2001.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

      Title: Chess Pie II [New York Times Heritage Cookbook](Kentucky)
 Categories: Desserts, Pies
      Yield: 8 Servings

    1/2 c  Butter at room temperature
  1 1/4 c  Sugar
      1 T  Yellow corn meal
      3 ea Eggs
      1 ea Grated rind of one lemon
            Juice of one lemon
      1 t  Vanilla
    1/4 t  Salt
      1 ea Unbaked nine-inch pie shell

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees 2. Cream together the butter and sugar
  in a mixing bowl, using a wooden spoon. Beat in the corn meal. 3. Add
  the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Beat in
  the lemon rind, lemon juice, vanilla and salt.  Pour the mixture into
  the pie shell. Bake 45 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the
  center comes out clean.

MMMMM
 Joan MacDiarmid
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