"??They wanted unlimited access to the buildings, which we could not give to anyone in the media,? said Gloria Roemer, a spokesperson for Harris County, which has jurisdiction over the Astrodome complex. Currently reporters are allowed in only on 15-minute guided tours.

According to Roemer, FEMA officials also believed they could not allocate ??scarce? electricity, office space, and phone and Internet access to the volunteer station??even though activists say they offered to run the station on batteries and use their own cellphones. "

Sounds like they had their reasons. Enough people running around without maybe having some more that apparently didn't want to abide by the rules.

But of course Gothhead smells a conspiracy brewing in the wind!!
Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on . FEMA Nixes Grassroots Radio Station for Hurricane Evacuees FEMA Nixes Grassroots Radio Station for Hurricane Evacuees Bureaucracy KO's info source at the Astrodome by Sarah Ferguson | September 8th, 2005 5:04 PM Although the effort was trumpeted in the media as an example of grassroots ingenuity in the face of disaster, local officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency have nixed an attempt by Houston activists to set up a low-power radio station at the Astrodome that would have broadcast Hurricane Katrina relief information for Rating: 5