meanwhile, you can t pay your guys overtime. should we be outraged about that? fema doesn t do debris. we coordinate the grant funding down to a governor, to the local communities to help them pay for that. i don t think fema should dictate the market rate of the private sector. reporter: here in key largo, everything is staying, right? [ cheers ] maybe the best recovery lesson comes from a foul-mouthed bar owner. we are not leaving until it s really the shit hits the fan. you can t say that. reporter: here, mocking the storm with two s-bombs, turned snappers to driftwood. but thanks to decent insurance and devoted regulars who helped him clean up, they were open been days. it s a party. it was a very positive ride after the hurricane.
was sky high, and it would have been 3,200 to hollowayall away like this. fema doesn t do debris. we coordinate the grant funding down to a governor, to the local communities to help them pay for those debris. i don t think fema should dictate the market rate. here, everybody is staying, right? [ cheering ] but maybe the recovery effort comes from a foul-mouthed bar owner. peter went viral by mocking the storm with two s-bombs before irma turned snappers to driftwood. it s completely gone. but thanks to decent insurance
180-mile-per-hour winds. we have to improve as we move along. the offshore islands that you have mentioned so often during your programming, we have to try to see, with the help of fema, we can weather-proof the islands so that, you know, decade after decade, fema doesn t have to be reconstructing a lot of things on those islands that we have. we are seeing the territory like the virgin islands getting help, but let us use the help in creative ways to construct a new puerto rico to construct a new st. croix, which we don t know what shape it is after passing maria. so we ll have a lot of work to do, but we have to be very careful the next few hours. what you re talking about is long-term planning. that s responsible for instruct building. and that takes more money that sort of the aid you receive at a first response, do you believe this time will be different?
what congress needs to do is put a boatload of money in there, whether it s $20 billion, $40 billion, $50 billion. after 9/11 we put $20 billion in there just for new york city. i think congress would be well-served to just put a big pot of money in there. and i would just say $20 billion off the top of my head. and that may not seem like a lot when we hear estimates of, you know, this or that hurricane is going to cost s$150 billion. i could caution american citizens to realize something. fema doesn t make people whole. fema doesn t come in and rebuild your home or rebuild your business. fema will come in and rebuild infrastructure, roads, highways, bridges, public schools and help with those costs. but they don t make people ho whole. that s not the job of fema. fema s job is to provide temporary assistance so that you can get your feet back on the ground as kind of a jumpstart. so when people hear $150 billion in damages expected from
that can be done better the next time these things happen. let s talk about cost controls, when things have to be done in a hurry, there s not justify the issue of gouging, which texas and fema has to keep a handle on. fema doesn t do all the rebuilding, how do you determine who gets the contracts to do the work? the hiring of a private contractor, a licensed contractor that can show you they have been in business for a while. there are people who are going to come in from everywhere to help with this. katrina it was very difficult to get drywall. there s going to be drywall that s contaminate and we had to tear it all out again. rebuilding is going to be a slow pro process. a lot of these people didn t have flood insurance, so if they