🚨MUST WATCH: Guy who owns & rents out dump trailers has news from St. Pete, Fl. - says landfills will no longer except storm debris, Fema closed the landfills to storm debris & says they will pick up the debris in the next year or residents can dump small amounts debris themselves at fema location
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🤢 These people are sick! 🤮
This is just bureaucracy, and money. That's it. FEMA did not close the landfills, it is a business decision for $$.
FEMA gives out big $$$ for debris removal, and any city or county hit by disaster is hard pressed to recover without it. It's at chapter 7 in the FEMA Public Assistant Program and Policy Guide (PDF link here). But to get this money, the towns and landfills have to follow very specific rules.
I would expect this same deal in all areas hit with big damage. But be precise here- it's not that FEMA won't let us; we just won't get reimbursed from FEMA unless we follow these rules; which inconvenience and traumatize the victims.