Stumbling Storm-Aid Effort Put Tons of Ice on Trips to Nowhere
Your Tax Dollars at work!
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 - When the definitive story of the confrontation between Hurricane Katrina and the United States government is finally told, one long and tragicomic chapter will have to be reserved for the odyssey of the ice.
Ninety-one thousand tons of ice cubes, that is, intended to cool food, medicine and sweltering victims of the storm. It would cost taxpayers more than $100 million, and most of it would never be delivered.
posted by Pat Campbell @ 7:10 AM
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This is an amazing story. I heard a trucker from Minnesota interviewed this morning (10/4) about ice he picked up in Illinois went to Mississippi and then Alabama before sitting for six days in Memphis where it was finally unloaded at a cold storage warehouse. From what he said, it seems we paid between 25 and 50 cents a pound just to move that 20 tons of ice around and it never got where it was needed.
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