Los Payasos - Government At Work

FEMA ice left to melt in Texas and Louisiana; truckers told to keep quiet The San Antonio Express-News reported Wednesday, Sept. 24, that hundreds of trucks were pulling in at Randolph Auxiliary Air Field near San Antonio. The trucks were loaded with pallets of ice, and the ice was being off-loaded to melt in the sun. A FEMA spokesman said the excess ice proves the agency was well prepared. But when a reporter started talking to truckers, the Express-News quoted a man in a FEMA shirt as saying, “This conversation is over.” He then reportedly threatened to fire the truckers if they talked to the media. One trucker, who was contacted later by the newspaper, estimated that $1.5 million dollars worth of ice was being dumped on the ground at the Texas air field. And in Carville, LA, trucks full of ice had been sitting parked for more than a week. WVLA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Baton Rouge, reported that nearly 3 million pounds of ice were thrown out at a FEMA staging area.