Inside the Jaws of Agnes - Biamonte, Edgar L
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"Inside the Jaws of Agnes" describes the hurricane that flooded Elmira, New York, and adjacent towns in mid-June, 1972. Local newspapers praised HUD for successfully setting up trailers for the flood victims, but this was a lie. The ensuing stupidity, waste, and bungling was beyond imagination. HUD hired this writer to help clean-up operations. Arriving for work the first day, he was stunned. Higher-ups had hired what resembled a hillbilly as chief of ground operations because of his supposed maintenance-ability during the recent Rapid City Disaster. Dim-witted, lackadaisical, and lacking…mehr

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"Inside the Jaws of Agnes" describes the hurricane that flooded Elmira, New York, and adjacent towns in mid-June, 1972. Local newspapers praised HUD for successfully setting up trailers for the flood victims, but this was a lie. The ensuing stupidity, waste, and bungling was beyond imagination. HUD hired this writer to help clean-up operations. Arriving for work the first day, he was stunned. Higher-ups had hired what resembled a hillbilly as chief of ground operations because of his supposed maintenance-ability during the recent Rapid City Disaster. Dim-witted, lackadaisical, and lacking leadership awareness, he kept stupidly hiring dozens of men who stood around in the office trailer sipping coffee, joking, and laughing. Soon catching on, they began signing out to play poker in the few trailers that had arrived, golf, or do what they pleased. Some even took second jobs while on HUD's payroll, only to sign back in late at night at taxpayers' expense. This chief hired his eighteen year-old girlfriend as his secretary. She treated contractors, truckers, and employees with contempt and hung up on victims begging to be housed in trailers. Cooped up in schools, churches, and the Armory - some had already committed suicide. More would follow suit, and all this is only a fraction of the incompetence that continued for weeks.
Autorenporträt
Edgar L. Biamonte joined the 686th Air Force Band as a beginning pianist in 1950. In 1952 he accompanied the band that toured Europe with Frank Sinatra, Rhonda Fleming, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Ava Gardner. Discharged from the service in 1954, he received his B. A. in English from Queens College, Flushing, New York, in 1961 and his M. S. in Education from Elmira College Graduate School, Elmira, New York in 1968. He taught English, including poetry and creative writing at Southside High School in Elmira from 1962 until he retired in1985. Literary magazines published over 100 of his 325 poems during that time. Many won or placed in various contests. Ashley Books published "Window of Eternity," a life/death book in1984, and Balboa Press published "Window to Eternity," a sequel, in May, 2012. He has also completed four novels and a collection of short stories. He eventually became an accomplished jazz pianist and composer and soloed on several Carnival Cruise ships and "Mariner of the Seas,"Royal Caribbean Line. He still plays piano professionally and appears on the Internet under edgarbiamonte.com.