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FEMA Building Pricey Domes… ‘For Your Safety’
Welcome to the FEMA-dome
Adan Salazar
Prison Planet.com
August 26, 2014
“Officials have started construction on one of their safe rooms,” reports KRGV. “They’re expected to be completed in a year.”
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is offering partial funding for construction of “safe domes” across Texas’ southern coastal region that will purportedly serve to shelter area emergency first responders and citizens “that are very difficult to evacuate in hazardous weather events.”
FEMA is supposedly footing a majority of the bill for the Texas Safe Shelter Initiative, an ambitious program started in 2010 which sought to erect about 35 expensive, domed structures in communities along the state’s coastline.
Many of the domes, which can cost small towns anywhere from just under a million dollars to more than $10 million, will ideally be outfitted with generators, trucks and emergency supplies, and can hold anywhere from 1,000 to 4,000 people depending on the circumstances. They will also double as community centers and gymnasiums while they’re not being used for emergencies.
The largely federally-funded igloo-like buildings have already cropped up in Central Texas towns like Edna, with a population of under 6,000, and North Texas towns such as Kountze and Lumberton, where the project already proved to be a boondoggle for the local economy.
Earlier this year in March, Lumberton ISD Superintendent John Valastro revealed the district had only secured partial funding to begin construction on the town’s Performing Arts Center dome, located near Lumberton High School.
In a stunning admission, Valastro told theBeaumont Enterprise the district opted to go ahead with the $9 million project, knowing full well they would be $4 million short before construction was completed.
Reposted with permission
