California is constantly sending ships of food to keep Hawaii-Guam fed.

If there is a disaster all FEMA has to do is stop those ships and reroute the food for disaster relief.

Hawaii and Guam could live without their ships of food for a few months.Problem solved.

FEMA could advise Hawaii-Guam to have 90 days stockpiled and expect to lose their ships of food should something happen.

Whallah...buck gets passed on to Hawaii-Guam to stockpile 90 days of food...FEMA spends $0.

Always follow the money with Gov't purchases.

Who is going to get rich, who is going to get kickbacks now or somewhere down the line?

Who is selling near expiring food? Surplus blankets and water, etc...

It is always about excess profits and deals made behind the scenes that benefit the few and
cost the many.

ALWAYS....

While every effort should be made to discover and analyze tell tale information such as this, remember that this is only an RFI, in BIG GOV speak. I work in the defense industry, and I can say from experience that many RFI's (request for information) are the governments way of assessing whether or not general industry is capable of fulfilling some sort of contractual need, pipedream or not. In this way they find out what is possible, how much it will cost and who the most likely candidates are to play the game. In this case, there might also be a passive agressive undercurrent of fear mongering for NLE 2011.
One must agree that only the most perceptive portions of America today would recognize bits like this on FedBizOps, so good job. I came across it myself and thought it was a bit odd but acknowledging that it was only an RFI, I moved on down the path. Still though, these things are worth keeping in memory to piece together later if need be. Keep your eyes open and your powder dry.....

Rico-

Government Conspiracies = Stupid, Egyptian Revolution = End of The World

There is the possibility that Fema blows out money based on an what if scenario on a regular basis, or just to be prepared, because they get the budget and will get a smaller budget if they dont blow it on something.

How many Americans have stocked up on food and ammo in the past, no needing additional supplies of either?

Given what's going on with the weather, it's seeming more and more likely that FEMA had some foresight into the bad weather conditions this year. It may have more to do with that than prepping for the supervolcano.

u think there maybe trying to rise atlantis?!

The FEMA people are good people.

They are just us that have jobs.

You guys can't say in other threads FEMA is planning to kill us, but feed us while they do it in this one. Maybe they are just learning from worldwide disasters.... better to be prepared and get reelected than not be prepared and get kicked out by an angry starved population.

Maybe if FEMA actually had some MRE's to distribute they could have been down South immediately after the tornadoes occurred helping the people that really need it NOW.

If I am not mistaken, there are more people dead or missing in Alabama alone than were in the Katrina 'disaster'.

Where's FEMA?

I forgot about this thread. I agree with others. They knew back in January or before that these floods were iminent. Heck they knew how much snow had fallen during the winter. I know here we had the most snow I've seen in the 20 years I've lived in this area. Drifts as high as the garage roof. Road closers, etc.
All that precipitation had to go somewhere once it melted.
It seems to me this flood was one of those "hurry up and wait situations" You prepare as best you can until the actual effect takes place. Prepare for the worst, Hope for the best.