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Originally Posted by CWGUY
 I'm thinking the easiest way to help is FOLLOW THE RULES!  |
Right now, from all I've read, the rules are to pile your yard waste on your lawn until FEMA shows up.
Unfortunately, that's not helping the cleanup go faster, despite FEMA working as fast as it can. There has to be some way for citizens who are motivated to pitch in. The development districts can take a leadership role here, and put suggestions out on what WE can do to speed cleanup.
We see the timeline for Districts 1-4 and those in Lake county.
For districts 5-11 there is no public timeline for when the government can get to their streets. As of last Friday, the FEMA crews were averaging cleaning up one village per day. If that average doesn't change those in the south will have yard waste in their yards for over two months.
These people are not asking the Villages or FEMA to get to them first or put more resources into the cleanup process. They are trying to figure out how THEY can help make the process easier and more efficient for FEMA. I would have thought combining piles so the claw truck had to make less stops would help speed it up, but the district, who knows more than we do, feels it won't help. So tell us what we can do that will help.
And perhaps the only answer is for us to hire our own cleanup crews. To me that is an acceptable answer.
I would never call folks that don't expect the government to bail them out "entitled". That term is usually used for those who do nothing and wait for the government to show up.