From Douglaston Patch:It might have been Snowpocalypse 2010, but according to the U.S. government, the mammoth blizzard that hit Queens on Dec. 26-27 wasn't considered a disaster — at least, one worthy of extra federal funds.
Until now.
On Wednesday, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. announced a deal that would allow for reimbursement of the city's snow removal costs from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“This storm was one of the worst New York City has seen in years, but by expanding the disaster declaration to include snow-removal costs for Queens, we can help make sure hard-pressed New Yorkers don’t have to shoulder these clean-up costs alone," Schumer said in a statement.
The original announcement made last month included assistance for Nassau County and Staten Island, leaving much of the city out in the cold when it came to federal help in paying for the unprecedented snow removal effort in the days and weeks after the storm.
7 comments:
lets hope that the money will pay for the urgently needed pot hole repair that is a disaster to motorists cars.
Three major storms which use to be normal 20 30 years ago in NYC. There will be construction on the LI Expressway, Northern Blvd, and Grand Central Expressway slowly chugging along this spring and summer.
Better question though is when Bloomberg will face more reporters on his failure and vacation\disappearance on Dec 26 as he shifted the blame around.
And dont forget that New Orleans is still waiting for their federal money from years ago from an actual disaster.
The message here is trust Schumer to keep federal taxes high, because with him in the Senate he can be trusted to game the system so that Indianans and Nebraskans are paying to get the snow removed in Queens, and Queens taxpayers don't have to pay for their post-tornado clean-up.
I never bought that lie about free federal money, and I don't now.
"Indianans and Nebraskans are paying to get the snow removed in Queens, and Queens taxpayers don't have to pay for their post-tornado clean-up."
Oh please, what a crock.
We ALL pay into the Fed.
How many hundreds of millions have gone to rebuild houses in flood plains that get wrecked regularly and their hick owner are too stupid and stubborn to move to higher ground?
Hundreds of millions in anti-terror funding have gone to protect what.. cornfields from bombers?
New York-L.A. Chicago are THE targets but these hick Congressmen and Senators get pork thrown their way...at everyone's expense.
At least try to be honest -you hate Schumer and all Democrats and won't ever credit them with anything good.
Oh please, what a crock.
We ALL pay into the Fed.
That is exactly the problem.
Problems should be fixed and paid for by local people. If your concept works, why not have a global government do the same thing. But just watch how bad the Eu is working.
That isn't what this country is all about. Not now, not ever. Why change now? It has never been just a "local matter" when something like this happens. If the part of the country that you live in was impacted by something like that snowstorm, you would find it inappropriate to get help from the Feds?
Bring back the snow so we can finally clean it!
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