Getting a leg up on the next crisis: Are we prepared?(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September, 2005

Byline: Chuck Goudie FEMA sounds a lot like FEMUR. Of course FEMA is the acronym for America's most maligned government agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMUR is the bone between your pelvis and knee and is the biggest, strongest bone in the human body. A major artery runs along the femur, so if you break the bone, you could bleed and die quickly without medical attention.

Just like the big FEMUR bone in your leg, FEMA should be the strongest bone in the government body. As with a FEMUR, when FEMA breaks, so, too, could go the artery that delivers life's needs. The bleeding is nonstop. Death follows. That is what happened during Hurricane Katrina. A broken FEMA resulted in the hemorrhage of federal help and eventual death for who...