Possibly.  According to MSNBC, FEMA is making a comeback.

When floodwaters knocked out the water treatment plant in Mason City, Iowa, FEMA rolled into town and promptly set up an account with a Pepsi bottler to supply bottled water. Then FEMA officials moved into a vacant store and began handing out the stuff.

“We saw different FEMA people in and out,” City Administrator Brent Trout said. “We really started seeing FEMA people showing up to see what was going on in town and putting out the word on flood assistance.”

So far, FEMA is getting good reviews.  Apparently, FEMA learned something from the Katrina fiasco.

When the rains started in the now flooded central part of the country, FEMA arrived with sandbags, a pre-emptive strike. 

After the rain started falling in early June, FEMA arrived with 13 million sandbags to pile onto the levees, 200 generators, and 30 trucks to haul off debris. Across the upper Midwest, the agency has delivered nearly 3.6 million liters of water and 192,000 ready-to-eat meals. About 650 inspectors are working in Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin alone.

According to FEMA’s Carlos Castillo, the agency has already handed out over $81 million in housing assistance funds. 

From all accounts, FEMA is handling the job.  From one who has been very critical of FEMA in the past, I am hopeful that the FEMA we are seeing at work in the present crisis will continue to learn from past mistakes.  That’s as far as I dare go at this point.  This is just the beginning of FEMA’s work in the central states.  Let’s just hope they don’t drop the ball into the muddy river.