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		<p><b>By Joel Achenbach and Ed O’Keefe</b></p><p>The massive tropical storm that stalled over Texas has triggered a massive governmental response, but there is no question that Harvey still has the upper hand. First responders have been overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster.</p><ul class="related_links"><li><a href="http://nationalpost.com/tag/hurricane-harvey">&#8216;A very major disaster&#8217;: Full coverage of Hurricane Harvey</a></li></ul><p>&ldquo;Please don&rsquo;t give up on us. None of us are going to give up,&rdquo; Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a Monday news conference.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:1000px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/sanctuary_cities_texas-e1503957154695.jpg?quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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</figure><p>The head of Houston&rsquo;s 911 emergency system, Joe Laud, said the average number of people on hold Monday morning hoping to speak to an operator had dropped to just 10 after hitting 250 during the height of Sunday&rsquo;s flooding. He said the system had handled 75,000 calls. Don&rsquo;t hang up &mdash; he implored residents &mdash; stay on the line.</p><p>&ldquo;We are processing the calls and hopefully help will be on the way,&rdquo; Laud said.</p><p>Harvey, still churning near the Texas coast and now throwing rain bands deep into Louisiana, has exposed what Houstonians already knew: Their city, the nation&rsquo;s fourth largest, was a disastrous flood just waiting to happen.</p>		<form id="wpcom-iframe-form-ac951aca241af052000379640935efde-5a83a82fd391a" target="wpcom-iframe-ac951aca241af052000379640935efde-5a83a82fd391a" method="post" action="//wpcomwidgets.com/?wpcom_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalpostcom.wordpress.com" style="display: none">
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		<p>But Harvey also has raised questions about how federal, state and local agencies should prepare for, and respond to, natural disasters. There were mixed messages from the state capital and Houston City Hall about whether to evacuate millions of people in advance of the Harvey&rsquo;s landfall, when it was a Category 4 hurricane.</p><p>Having learned lessons from Hurricane Katrina&rsquo;s aftermath in 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency pre-positioned many personnel in advance of the storm, as did the Red Cross and other organizations. But when the floodwaters rose, people were still largely on their own. Some rode to shelters or hospitals in the backs of city garbage trucks while others waded through chest-deep water on foot.</p><p>FEMA said Monday it already made major deployments of people and resources to Texas, including some 900 personnel in search-and-rescue teams, a million litres of water, a million meals, 20,520 tarps and 70 generators. FEMA is coordinating a response that includes the National Emergency Medical Services, which is deploying 100 ambulances and 15 air ambulances out of San Antonio. FEMA has 1,800 personnel deployed in total along with 341 personnel from the Department of Homeland Security.</p><figure id="attachment_" style="width:1000px;" class="wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test align-center" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="photo url" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img src="http://wpmedia.nationalpost.com/2017/08/afp_rx2pe-e1503956789883.jpg?quality=60&amp;strip=all" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">
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</figure><p>Leaders of the federal response to the Hurricane Harvey disaster had an early-morning news conference Monday in Washington that was by turns a declaration of competence, an expression of grave concern and a plea for the public&rsquo;s help.</p><p>&ldquo;Under the president&rsquo;s direction, we have made every resource available to respond to this historic storm,&rdquo; said Elaine Duke, Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who added that she will accompany President Donald Trump on a visit to Texas on Tuesday, where he plans to tour flood-ravaged areas.</p><p>Joining Duke at FEMA headquarters were William &ldquo;Brock&rdquo; Long, the FEMA administrator; Louis Uccellini, director of the National Weather Service; Tom Price, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; and Adm. Paul F. Zukunft, commandant of the Coast Guard.</p><p>Long, preparing to fly to Texas as soon as the news conference was over, said the situation in Texas was not yet a &ldquo;recovery&rdquo; operation but rather still a &ldquo;life-safety&rdquo; operation in which a primary focus will be taking care of what he estimates will be 30,000 people needing shelter. He later said that all estimated numbers are likely to change every 30 minutes.</p><p>&ldquo;We gotta get them into shelters,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This shelter mission is going to be a very heavy lift.&rdquo;</p><p>He echoed comments he has made in interviews with The Washington Post in recent weeks: Disaster recovery starts and ends at the local level.</p><p>&ldquo;Right now here&rsquo;s what I need you to know. Helping Texas overcome this disaster is going to be far greater than FEMA coordinating the mission of the entire federal government. We need citizens to be involved,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This is a landmark event. We have not seen an event like this. You could not draw this forecast up. You could not dream this forecast up.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m asking for all citizens to get involved here. Donate your money. Figure out how you can get involved as we help Texas find a new normal going forward after this devastating disaster.&rdquo;</p><p>Long deflected questions about whether Houston should have been evacuated.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not a time to start pointing blame,&rdquo; he said, noting that Houston is a city with millions of people and not a place easily evacuated. &ldquo;Pulling the trigger on that&rsquo;s an incredibly difficult situation.&rdquo;</p><p>Uccellini said Southeast Texas still faces another 15 to 20 inches of rain, but he cautioned that forecasting the storm is difficult. Harvey hit Texas late Friday and, as the National Hurricane Center predicted, came to a virtual halt. He said the centre of circulation then migrated to a point over Matagordo Island, a barrier island on the Texas coast, not far from where Harvey made landfall Friday with 130 mph sustained winds.</p><p>Zukunft pointed out that search-and-rescue operations in this case are hampered by the continued presence of a storm that is producing heavy rain over a large area.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re still operating in the midst of a tropical storm,&rdquo; Zukunft said. &ldquo;We have thrown every Coast Guard asset available at this response. But there are conditions where it&rsquo;s just not safe to fly.&rdquo;</p><p>Adm. Thad Allen (ret.), who played a key role in shoring up the initially weak federal response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and then served as National Incident Commander for the gulf oil spill in 2010, said government agencies seem to be doing their best in an extremely complex situation that is huge in scale.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure how much more you can ask for,&rdquo; Allen said. &ldquo;If you have more total fires than you have firemen, the scale, complexity and scope becomes a risk aggregator. The demand signal for what you do far outweighs the resources you have.&rdquo;</p>		</div>
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