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FEMA Closed Due To Weather — A sign seen taped 10:30 a.m., today, Nov. 7, at the FEMA Center at 6581 Hylan Blvd. on Staten Island. One presidential candidate thought FEMA needed major reforms and possible replacement. One thought it was just peachy. Well, you know which one won so you know what we are stuck with.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania residents were left without power and with storm cleanup related to fallen trees, power lines and other debris. If you need to hire someone to make repairs to your home or property, Pennsylvania has a law in place to help ensure you are hiring a legitimate contractor, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)
The Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act of 2008 establishes a mandatory registration program for contractors who offer or perform home improvements in Pennsylvania. It establishes minimum insurance requirements for contractors; requires contractors to provide their registration number in their ads and contracts; establishes required contract terms for home improvement contracts; prohibits unfair business practices; and creates a criminal penalty for home improvement fraud.
The Office of Attorney General also offers these tips to avoid unscrupulous contractors:
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Never enter into a repair or improvement project without a written contract that includes a start and finish date and a three-day right-to-cancel notice. |
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Never sign a blank contract, or one that does not include all the costs and supplies. |
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Never hire a contractor who does not have a business card or local phone number and address. |
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Never make final payment until you are completely satisfied with the work performed. |
Any good written contract includes the type, quality and warranty of materials to be used and outlines all the financial terms and payment schedules. It also includes a complete description of the work to be done and a guarantee that old materials and debris will be removed.
For more information on hiring a good contractor and avoiding scams, visit www.attorneygeneral.gov/hiccon.aspx.
Hurricane Sandy Springfield Photo Essay
This serene shot of the creek that runs beneath North Rolling Road in Springfield Pa. was taken at 12:38 p.m., today, Oct. 29. If the amount rain expected with Hurricane Sandy arrives there is a good likelihood it will flood closing the road.
The empty streets of Springfield at 7:55 p.m., Oct. 29 looking south on Springfield Road towards Brookside Road. The rain had stopped but wind had significantly picked up. On the odd side of Windsor Circle one small tree had been blown over and large branches from another had been blown into the street.
This spruce fell from the Springfield Township traffic island onto the wall at 18 Windsor Circle blocking island’s southern path along with the northern Windsor Circle entrance. It was photographed at 10:46 p.m. It was the second spruce to fall from the island in three months.
Another blurry nighttime view of the fallen spruce. A far greater amount of damaged occurred across the street when a large tree fell from 33 N. Rolling Road onto the roof of 25 N. Rolling Road. Kudos to the Springfield road crews who were cutting up the spruce at 1:25 a.m.
The aftermath: The scene at 33 N. Rolling Road (left) and 25 N. Rolling Road, Springfield, Pa., the morning of Oct. 30. Rain was still falling but the wind had significantly dropped.
Another view of the tree that fell on 25 N. Rolling Road.
Springfield Township workers remove the fallen spruce tree from the Windsor Circle/Rolling Road traffic island about 2 p.m., Oct. 30.
The rain is gone, the high winds are now a light breeze and here is the stream that runs beneath North Rolling Road at 1:48 p.m., Oct. 30.
Much was made of the matter when the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was raised to level 5 on the The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
According to the scale Level 5 is considered to be an “accident with wider consequences”.
It’s a Level 6 it becomes a “serious accident”.
Level 7 is a “major accident”.
The casualty rate as per Wikipedia as of the morning of March 21 is 37 injured (none due to radiation) and two missing.
It seems it is much better to be in an old nuclear plant during a 9 magnitude earthquake followed by a 30-foot tsunami than. say, deep in a coal mine.
President Obama, at a rare press conference yesterday, took full credit for stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
So now we know why the spill lasted over a month.
Obama then slammed shut new off-shore drilling in U.S. waters saying:
First, we will suspend the planned exploration of two locations off the coast of Alaska
Second,we will cancel the pending lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico and the proposed lease sale off the coast of Virginia.
Third, we will continue the existing moratorium and suspend the issuance of new permits to drill new deep water wells for six months.
And four, we will suspend action on 33 deep water exploratory wells currently being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico.
In other words, he will continue to do what it takes to send our money to our oil-rich adversaries so they can pay to build mosques on the hollowed grounds of the 9/11 attacks.
He also said “what’s also been made clear from this disaster is that for years, the oil and gas industry has leveraged such power that they have effectively been allowed to regulate themselves” which is something that should make you go hmmmm.
With regard to Springfield Pa.’s own contribution to the failure of this incredibly incompetent administration, Obama said:
The — there will be an official response shortly on the Sestak issue which I hope will answer your questions. You will get it from my administration, so — and it will — it will be coming out — when I say shortly, I mean shortly. I don’t mean weeks or months. With respect to the first –I can assure the public that nothing improper took place. But as I said, there will be a response shortly on that issue.
(For President Obama’s explanation see DNA Tests For Obama, Sestak Neckties? )
Dick Morris, who was President Clinton’s go-toe guy during the most successful parts of that administration, said Congressman Sestak’s allegation of a job offer from Obama, if true, would be an impeachable offense, and if Washington is unwilling to investigate the matter Pennsylvan Attorney General Tom Corbett, from whence Sestak is from, should empanel a grand jury to do so.
The sooner Obama is impeached and removed from office, the better for America and the world.
Thank you, Joe Sestak.