Pres. Obama: Mississippi Disaster Declaration

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release - May 11, 2011

President Obama Signs Mississippi Disaster Declaration

The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Mississippi and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by flooding beginning on May 3, 2011, and continuing.

The President's action makes Federal funding available to affected individuals in Adams, Bolivar, Claiborne, Coahoma, DeSoto, Humphreys, Issaquena, , Jefferson, Sharkey, Tunica, Warren, Washington, Wilkinson, and Yazoo Counties.

Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.

Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.

W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Terry L. Quarles as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area.

FEMA said that damage surveys are continuing in other areas, and more counties and additional forms of assistance may be designated after the assessments are fully completed.

FEMA said that residents and business owners who sustained losses in the designated counties can begin applying for assistance tomorrow by registering online at http://www.DisasterAssistance.gov or by calling 1-800-621-FEMA(3362) or 1-800-462-7585 (TTY) for the hearing and speech impaired. The toll-free telephone numbers will operate from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. (local time) seven days a week until further notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: FEMA (202) 646-3272.

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Those Southern Republicans: want to "squeeze government --drown it in the bathtub" --hate government so much that --oops, until: they want to suck on the federal teet, get all that 'nasty' federal aide, FEMA help --so they can shower, dry off, go back on camera whining about the size of government --and terrible 'non-leader' President Obama.

I wonder: is it hard to talk --with a forked tongue --out of both sides of their mouth?

Well, if they flap their lips enough: maybe residents won't make the connection --between drought --fire --flood --snow --tornado in the same week --to dumping 271 MILLION tons of toxins on the planet every Year, from 70,000 flights a day --oil and coal refineries spew toxins upwards, for awhile, rest of the toxic waste dumped in waterways. While right-wingers, do-gooders, morons, midgets: keep making laws banning tobacco, ala New York, California. Ya, tobacco, That's the ticket, that'll stop glaciers from melting -drench parched Texas fields --shrink the Mississippi river --stop horrific tornadoes. Oh well.

Eating tuna fish sandwiches, while you job hunt?
Did you know: that gun-tot'n 'nature lover' The Dick, half of the eight-year WH squatter team who brought us two wars, un-paid for, got a New Rule passed, 2001:
it's okay to dump toxic coal waste --mercury, into US waterways -- it it's raining.
That Dick, always looking out, for somebody. So glad I quit eating fish in 1982. If your hair is falling out, you're tired all the time: get tested for mercury poisoning. Send the bill to The Dick, in Montana. Quit eating sushi, tuna sandwiches.

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