With America’s local-state-federal divide, however, the country simply cannot guarantee a quick and efficient response to mass-casualty disasters as things now stand. When every minute is crucial to saving lives, our inability to mandate an instant call-up of resources across city and state lines is literally killing people.
The tragedy unfolding in Miami seems to reflect the inadequacies of the system we have in place. Hannah Dreier of The Washington Post questioned why it took Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis almost a full day to issue the necessary declarations to bring federal disaster response teams to the beachfront scene: “FEMA was ready to deploy to the condo collapse almost immediately, and included the crisis in its daily briefing, but didn’t get permission from Gov. DeSantis to get on the ground for a full day.”

Miami condo collapse shows how the U.S. keeps getting disaster response wrong (nbcnews.com)

The commentary and “facts” by Hanna Dreier already have been pretty much destroyed as a political hack job by anybody with more than two interconnected neurons. But to say that a quick response was not provided is an outright lie. This is a screen capture of just the Miami Dade Rescue units that had responded to the building collapse by 5:33 am which was the time I checked their calls response page.

That is over 100 MDFR units. I don’t have the exact time, but I believe that by daylight, any survivors stuck in the still standing part of the building were rescued and taken to a safe location. I guess we should have some Marvel Super Hero on call who is capable of safely levitate thousands of tons of concrete while gently plucking the remains of the victims in the time it takes to order a Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino.

Response by rescue personnel was never an issue, but political attack jobs by the Media using the corpses of the trapped to attack the Governor of Florida is truly a sickening trend.

Moving day approaches and we have been busy. 90% of the packing is done and while waiting for the container to arrive, I am doing the obligatory painting inside the house to make it look “purty” for the realtor’s photos. The only area left to take care off is the living room/dining area and part of the kitchen which cannot be done till all the boxes stashed there are in the container.

I hate painting. That said, I went airless with both gun and roller. I would have lost my mind painting the popcorn ceiling, but thanks to the gun they actually look great , but I keep over spraying the walls and  getting runs. Nothing that a sander with 80 grit paper cannot fix.

At least the missus was smart and decided that we were going to hire a service to deep clean the floors. Having Mexican tile is not the greatest idea for flooring, trust me on that. It is triple cost to clean compared with what a normal tile floor costs. Good news? It is all done in one day. If we have to do flooring in the future, it will either be bamboo or some exotic artificial crap that can stand half megaton nukes and can be cleaned with a thought.

The only thing I have planned to do outside the moving stuff is to go to Mass after Governor DeSantis signs the expanded church carry bill. If something interesting comes along, I’ll take a break and post about it.

Oh yeah, the Surfside Building collapse  idiocy of the day.

Could recent Navy blast off Florida coast have contributed to Surfside condo collapse? (wptv.com)

ABOUT TIME!

Say hello to the Morbark 50/48.

I’m sure 1050HP is enough for even the fattest pedophile.

Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry 'pissed' national anthem was playing https://t.co/HANHvsuFed pic.twitter.com/NGCzpnHACJ

— New York Post (@nypost) June 27, 2021

A US hammer thrower turned away from the American flag as the national anthem played while she and two other athletes stood on the podium at the Olympic trials Saturday, later saying she was “pissed” that “The Star-Spangled Banner” played as she received her bronze medal.

Gwen Berry — who qualified for her second US Olympic team during the trials — shifted to face the stands rather than the flag before holding up a black shirt that read, “Activist Athlete.”

“They said they were going to play it before we walked out, then they played it when we were out there,” Berry said. “But I don’t really want to talk about the anthem because that’s not important. The anthem doesn’t speak for me. It never has.”

“My purpose and my mission is bigger than sports,” Berry said. “I’m here to represent those … who died due to systemic racism. That’s the important part. That’s why I’m going. That’s why I’m here today.”

It should be a requirement of Team USA that you support America.

If you’re going to disrespect America from the podium, you don’t need America sending you to the Olympics.

This move has been an epic fucking disaster.

We drove from Alabama to North Carolina yesterday.  Got to the hotel last night at midnight.

This morning, I get a call on my hotel phone from local police that my truck was broken into.

They bashed in a rear window away from view.

They ransacked the cab but stole nothing.

Everything of value was locked in the toolbox or trailer.

Except my 9mm S&W which is cable box locked under the front seat.

Still there.

So now I’m living proof of this working.

I’m not sure what pisses me off more.  That they smashed my straw hat or they spilled Coke on my immaculate interior.

At least being paranoid kept my valuables safe.

Fuck this has been  disaster.

Update:

They hit 9 cars and got 4 guns.

None were mine.

Lock up your guns people.

Not only the dumbass can’t report the truths, she can’t do math. A full day I seem to recall is 24 hours.

Clicking on this link will take you to a tweet where both photos are clearly showing the dates and times for the declaration of emergency. The governor signed at 5:32 pm, 59 minutes after the Mayor of Miami Dade County signed hers.

Ms. Dreier has not corrected her tweet or even apologized for the lie misinformation yet and it has been way more than 24 hours from her posting.

It is the WaPo. We kind of expect this level of political bullshit and we know more will be forthcoming.