No crisis, but Maine getting plenty of ice from FEMA

No crisis, but Maine getting plenty of ice:

"The federal government is diverting hundreds of truckloads of bagged ice cubes from the Gulf Coast hurricane-relief effort to cold storage in Portland and other cities.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it has more ice than it can use in the hurricane zone and wants to keep it in storage for use in a future emergency.

But critics, including some truck drivers who have been paid $800 a day while hauling the same loads for a week or more, say the process seems like a waste of taxpayers' money.

'The $9,000 they're paying me to move this load should have gone to some family down there,' said Loren Reeves, who hauled his load of ice from New York state to Alabama before being sent to Maine. 'There is definitely millions being wasted that could go to people who need it.'"