you can help people out with money but you can not tell them what to spend it on . If they wast it then they have to do without lader. The only way to stop it is give food vouchers or clothing vouchers but money goes where the people that git it wonts to spend it.But water and ice every one can use that it doesent git wasted. Its what keeps you going till the power comes back on.

its election year, i would really like to hear the reasoning behind this.  most of the disaster money went to new orleans i went to the mall about 2 weeks after katrina and even the store clerks were talking about how the people were blowing the money on high end items, things they did not have before katrina nor did they need after katrina. it made all us sick because it was our tax dollars being wasted

Limiting Ice.  After Katrina we grabbed all the ice we could we did not waste a drop.  We had a pick up truck and took it to the beach area and people in low lying areas and not only did we load it we gave it away.  We were homeless but we still had a ride.  These folks had no cars.  We handed out ice to people that were living on their lawns.  It told them when it melts get a cup you will have water.  We did not even get ice from FEMA we got ice from our good neighbor Chevron Refinery who was parked in the Wal-Mart parking lot and paid these guys to for handing it out.  Chevron knows what a true disaster is, they even offered tents and gave food vouchers.  I am insulted that FEMA can hand out checks to everyone but thinks ice is and extra, you can live without food for 4 weeks but you can’t live without water for a week.  I never got a FEMA check or a trailer but I got ice and water from Chevron Refinery.  We also handed out MRE’s provided by the military, those guys were awesome

FEMA director R. David Paulison Is not worried about people in disaster his only worrie is how to cut money out of his budgit so he can ear mark it for more useful things like payrazes for him a biger office for him .People in high placies dont care about the pore people in this country if they did they would not do stupid things like this .

We were lucky enough to get ice after our home flooded but we never received the meals. When we were able to get ice, we shared with our neighbors who were not lucky enough to get it.

For one of the previous hurricanes, I stood in two very long lines to get ice and both times they ran out just as I was approaching the truck. I wasn’t able to get it. We would be outside using chainsaws to clear debris and just yearn for a cold drink of water but there was none.