Classy, FEMA

Because everyone knows tsunamis are big fun, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has created this tsunami game for the kids. Just put the items washed up by the tsunami where they belong and watch the little frog dance for you. Next from FEMA: The kids' 9/11 game—Flash 7.0 required to properly render the flaming bodies.

Comments

[sage]

This is about par for the course. How completely tasteless. Why don't they tell the children of the victims that their parents are helping the dwindling whale population by replinishing the food chain?

[Solitudinarian]

Doesn't work for me. Has FEMA come to its senses or is my computer just unwilling to open crap like that?

[Doc]

You know, it seems like something a child psychologist might design for kids having nightmares from the images seen on TV. A chance for them to help out (in their imagination) by making everything ok.

Just a hunch it ain't out of schadenfreude.

[TWC]

It's idiotic pyschobabble but it's also cool because you can put the seahorse in the trashcan and the booze bottle in the surf shack.

My kids watched the 9-11 disaster on TV the day it happened. They dealt with it well because they weren't treated to a sugar coated white wash of reality.

Most kids that are reared in normal homes with parents who care about them are able to cope with tragedy in the world fairly well. The key is explaining or discussing it in terms they can understand and answering their questions honestly.

Of course it is different when the tragedy is their own, but that's not what were talking about here.

[Blue]

I prefer NOAA's coloring bood on Tommy Tsunami and Ernie Earthquake:

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/tommy00.htm

[Warren]

I like the way the sports car zooms away once you put it back on the road. Gee, cleaning up after a tsunami is so easy, what are they doing with all that 'relief' money?
[homer simpson's head] Heh heh heh dancing frog [/homer simpson's head]

[Doc]

>Most kids that are reared in normal homes with parents who care about them are able to cope with tragedy in the world fairly well.

Sure, and for the rest of the kids?

[mtc]

doc-
Clearly, the rest of the kids need your tax dollars to be spent on flash games that have nothing to do with anything.

[Erik]

Where the ass that you kissed goodbye when you saw the tsunami? I need realism, people!

[serafina]

I wonder what the point of that game is supposed to be? It isn't exactly fun or challenging and I can't imagine the educational value.

[Jeff]

I am still waiting for the first word of a made for TV film about the Tsunami, but in the end I expect no less than four.
And I can't wait to see the Bollywood version.

[Doc]

>Clearly, the rest of the kids need your tax dollars to be spent on flash games that have nothing to do with anything.

Awww...someone needs a nap. 🙂

[The Wine Commonsewer]

"Sure, and for the rest of the kids"

Up until 20 years ago the rest of the kids all survived just fine without being herded into the gym for an emergency intervention session by school counselors every time somebody's cat got run over by a truck.

Besides, kids raised in crack houses don't have computer access anyway and even if they can sneak off to the library to get online they ain't going to FEMA's site looking for a good time or for counseling.

On a slightly different note, this stuff just bolsters my long held argument that depriving the government of as much money as possible is the right answer because this is the crap they spend it on. Well, that and bombs.

[D Anghelone]

For more fun you can drop your digital pants to be flashed at the NSA site. They've long had a Kid's Page.

[The Wine Commonsewer]

Blue, at least Tommy Tsunami has some useful information. I don't know about that "not being afraid" part though.

[Brien]

The game is apparently gone

[liz]

for those of you see these games as pointless, may i call your attention to the "FEMA for kidz" rap, a declaration of intent of sorts:

Disaster . . . it can happen anywhere,
But we've got a few tips, so you can be prepared
For floods, tornadoes, or even a 'quake,
You've got to be ready - so your heart don't break.

Disaster prep is your responsibility
And mitigation is important to our agency.

People helping people is what we do
And FEMA is there to help see you through
When disaster strikes, we are at our best
But we're ready all the time, 'cause disasters don't rest.

[saw-whet]

Looks like they took it down. Wonder why? Or are others able to access it?

[E-Rock]

It went bye-bye. Anyone grab a copy before they realized what a bad idea it was?

[Captain Automatic]

That's a great rap! I will rap it in my upcoming shows!

[Mason]

I know the game is already gone and there's no way for y'all to verify, but that game had been there well before the Tsunami. The page had last been edited sometime in (I think it was) Oct 2004, and had been in existence for a few years.