Can we get FEMA to go in with the Coast Guard on this one? I'm sure that Starbuck's can get set up in less than 72 hours.

>> Can we get FEMA to go in with the Coast Guard on this one? I'm sure that Starbuck's can get set up in less than 72 hours. <<

It's not the Starbuck's timeline you have to worry about. If FEMA is running things, they may allow Starbuck's to set up 12-14 weeks after the event (and only after they can confirm in writing that the operation will conform to the Davis-Bacon Act and the Stafford Act). Remember, for FEMA a disaster is not a human suffering problem - it is first and foremost a paperwork problem and a CYA problem. You want to make sure you can't fail an audit in the future. Hurts career advancement, you know.

.....cliff
(like, who else?)

co-author, 2008 ETS Survival News

Congratulations on the contract and recognition that comes with it! Then again, since you announced it on a fictitious day my congrats will also be fictitious. That introduces another problem: If the release was on a fictitious day and you received fictitious congratualtions will any non-fictitious people see it? I hear Rod Serling calling.

Bump. Because all of these (ETS Survival News) should be a sticky.

Blitz