Jackson Jambalaya

Lumumba can't do the job. He is incompetent.

Donna Ladd
@DonnerKay

"It also tickles me to see people who'd probably never heard of Harvey Johnson Jr. and Kane Ditto a week ago scrambling to interview them after @nickjudin's story. Nick grew up here understanding Jackson-vs-Mississippi race dynamics. This is how to set the gold standard."

Nick Judin was all of 6 or 7 years old when Harvey was first elected and still in diapers then training pants for most of Ditto's time as Mayor. A toddler then elementary grade schooler brings serious perspective to the conversation. Yup, that's the gold standard right there.

SOS in Jackson - different day.

Baby Chok management style:

Bad mouth the governor at every opportunity.

Ask governor for $47,000,000.

WAPT: Mississippi congressman weighs in on Jackson's water crisis | Thompson says city should seek for federal disaster declaration

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson is weighing in on the Jackson mayor’s request for tens of millions of dollars to fix the city’s water system.

Thompson said the city can get financial assistance through a federal disaster declaration, but Jackson officials haven't submitted paperwork to start the process
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Thompson, a Democrat from Bolton, said FEMA money will only come through a federal disaster declaration.

"And we don’t have a disaster declaration for FEMA at this point, because the paperwork required to make that assessment has not been submitted," Thompson said.

Thompson said, unlike 32 other Mississippi counties affected by the ice storm, Hinds County hasn’t submitted its damage assessment.
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Calhoun said supervisors are allowing Jackson to do its own assessment.

A spokesman for the mayor's office said Jackson will have its assessment completed before the March 19 deadline.

"If Hinds county or the city of Jackson choose not to expedite the request then that means The likelihood of help getting where it needs to be will just be delayed," Thompson said.

Mayor and Thompson are pi***ing up a tree with FEMA, as to the $47 million request - FEMA can pay for part of the losses that occurred due to the storm, which in our case might include repairing the broken water lines and some of the issues at the plant. Normally it could even cover revenue losses due to the lack of water being sold to the residents, but since Jackson doesn't require its users to pay for their water (unless they live in certain neighborhoods) then they didn't lose much in the way of revenue.

The $47 million - according to what Williams said today - was for repairs and maintenance needed at the treatment plant following a December meeting with EPA; the list was created and dated in December, so obviously not a result of the ice storm. That disqualifies it for FEMA reimbursement, but who's counting - I'm sure they will try to find a way to 'complete the paperwork' in some kind of manner to make it fit Uncle Joe's reconcillation process.

@DonnerKay, I'm glad somebody tickled your funnybone - but just like your 'memories' of growing up in racially packed Neshoba County and how your mama was the only decent person in the county were all based on your two and three year old days, Nick's 'understanding' of Jackson under Ditto and Harvey are about equal.

Anybody can write stories and claim knowledge when in fact all one "knows" is what they have been told or have dreamed; it appears that Nick is almost as good as you in that department.

Question for the Doctor - how is it that the city has to go look for and find valves (valves of the city's water main distribution system, underground with covers) that are turned off?

Seems like the only people that could turn them off would be city water maintenance people. Don't they have a record of if they turned them off, and why? Or, if they only turned them off to fix a problem, shouldn't they turn them back on again once completed?

Answer of course is - yes. They are SUPPOSSED to have a record if they turned them off, but they don't keep that kind of essential detail. If they turned a valve off at some point, and never turned it back on again, they don't have a clue. (But why is that surprising, they don't have a clue about anything nowdays)

So, they are having to 'find out' if there are valves turned off that now are denying service to some areas.

As a primer for those not familiar with the system, it has various loops in it so that when water is disrupted from one direction they can shut it off and water will serve from another. BUT, if they shut it off months ago and now with a new disruption, the loop is worthless. Fact is, once the fixed the problem that caused the city to close a valve, they should have gone back and opened it again so the system would work as it is designed. But that is too much to ask of this administration - so now they have to drive through the city looking for closed valves or open fire hydrants (same issue, open them to purge a line after a repair, but never go back and close them again.)

Build the Rez dome next week !

(Hell, do something with the old Harbor Walk site as well)