FEMA Is Eager to Show It Learned From Katrina
One can study and cram for any exam, but the test of your work will be when you are put to the test. For FEMA that day is upon them. What have they learned in the three years since Katrina hit and they failed, miserably?
“Representatives of more than a dozen federal agencies tried to ensure that everyone knew what part they had to play as Hurricane Gustav churned toward the Gulf Coast.”
“Nature has a way of upending disaster-response plans. But there was a certain confidence Sunday that the federal government had learned its painful lessons and that there would be no repeat of the ineptitude that defined the response to Hurricane Katrina three years ago.”
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