{"id":381132,"date":"2018-10-16T00:27:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/anger-at-trump-inaction-as-hurricane-michael-leaves-millions-without-basic-needs\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T00:27:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T23:27:48","slug":"anger-at-trump-inaction-as-hurricane-michael-leaves-millions-without-basic-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/anger-at-trump-inaction-as-hurricane-michael-leaves-millions-without-basic-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger at Trump Inaction as Hurricane Michael Leaves Millions Without Basic Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now that nearly a full week has passed since Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle and proceeded to tear through Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina \u2014 obliterating entire neighborhoods, businesses, and schools and killing at least 18 people \u2014 many of the millions of US residents affected by the storm are beginning to voice outrage at the inadequate response of the Trump administration as hundreds of thousands are still without electricity as well as basic resources like food, water, medicine, and shelter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re doing us like they did New Orleans,\u201d Florida resident Tracey Simmons told<\/a> the New York Times, referring to the George W. Bush administration\u2019s appallingly slow, insufficient, and racist response<\/a> to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. \u201cWe know that people are coming, but where are they?\u201d<\/p>\n

Simmons was hardly the only Floridian expressing anger at the lack of federal response to the second devastating hurricane<\/a> to strike the US mainland in just two months.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not getting any help,\u201d Barbara Sanders, a resident of Panama City \u2014 which \u201clooks like a bomb has been dropped on it<\/a>\u201d following the Category 4 storm \u2014 told The Daily Beast. \u201cWe need food. It\u2019s just crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in need of food, water, anything,\u201d Chantelle Goolspy, who lives in Panama City public housing that was badly damaged by Michael, pleaded in a phone call with the Red Cross. \u201cThe whole street needs help. FEMA referred me to you. That person told me to call 211 [Florida United Way, a nonprofit relief organization].\u201d<\/p>\n

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A humanitarian crisis is developing in the wake of Hurricane Michael, and Trump\u2019s FEMA is nowhere to be found. https:\/\/t.co\/olR6L3bbry<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) October 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hurricane Michael was described by meteorologists<\/a> as one of the top four most powerful hurricanes to strike the US in recorded history \u2014 and the most powerful to hit the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now that nearly a full week has passed since Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle and proceeded to tear through Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina \u2014 obliterating entire neighborhoods, businesses, and schools and killing at least 18 people \u2014 many of the millions of US residents affected by the storm are beginning to voice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}