Doug Giuliano recounts his adventures in the FEMA wonderland after heading to the Gulf Coast to help with hurricane recovery. What started as noble intentions ended mired in the muck of bureaucracy.
"Last fall I made a phone call to test the FEMA waters. I was quickly pulled into a riptide of inertia.
A few months after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a master's in city planning, I still had not found the Philadelphia planning job I wanted. It was November 2005, and a friend was doing debris cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in Florida. FEMA volunteering seemed like a way to use my degree, get a basic per diem, and help some people out. My friend connected me with Mark, an engineer in Chicago, who told me that I would be on a team of ten to twenty planners, architects, and engineers creating a Hurricane Katrina recovery plan for the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Days later, Mark called me at my temp job and asked if I wanted to go to Mississippi. I had to be there in three days."
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