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It’s the second Sunday before Easter, so Sunday Music today is “Via Dolorosa”

Did you hear the one about the FEMA trailers for flood victims?  You know the one, where the government bought all these trailers for the folks who lost their homes in the floods?  The ones that have formaldehyde problems bad enough they aren’t safe to live in?

What?  Katrina trailers are old news, you say?  Yeah, they are, and that’s part of what makes this story so pathetic.  But the trailers I’m talking about are new trailers, sitting in a lot at the Portland, Oergon airport.  Can’t this outfit get anything right?

VERNONIA, Ore. - Vernonia residents flooded out of their homes in December of last year are still waiting for their temporary homes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, also known as FEMA, due to concerns about levels of chemicals in the air inside the trailers.

Dozens of mobile-home-type trailers are currently resting at a Portland International Airport parking lot while inspectors check to see if formaldehyde gas levels are low enough for the trailer homes to be safely used.

So, it’s been three months or so since the floods and the trailers are still sitting there?  And they bought more trailers with the same cheesy specs from the same cheesy suppliers as the Katrina trailers?  Are they STOOPID, or what?  Yeah, they are.  Check out the “test proceedure” they use

Air quality experts from the CDC took samples from 26 mobile home trailers meant for Vernonia.

The homes are tested by closing all doors and windows for a week and keeping the units’ interiors at 72 degrees. The air is then tested by a laboratory.

Results are expected early next week. Trailers that pass the tests will be immediately transported to Vernonia residents that need them. An official told KATU News that trailers that don’t pass the test will be replaced as soon as possible.

Note to FEMA:  closing all the doors and windows for a week, heating the little boxes up to 72 degrees, and then taking a sample is a guaranteed way to get the highest readings possible.  What are you, morons?  Open the doors and windows, air the silly things out, paint them if you have to, and get them to the people who need them.  And then fire the dozen idiots who keep buying these things with the same specs from “the lowest bidder”.

Once again, the scariest words in the world are “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help you.”  Incompetence…