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<p>First of all, the weather forecasters seem to have hit the nail on the head when it comes to predicting what would happen with Hurricane Harvey. It did strengthen and become a Cat 4 Hurricane and the gobs of rain that have fallen and looks to continue to fall in Texas and Louisiana. It is set to meander out of the area beginning Tuesday, but in the meantime rain continues to fall. One projection has up to 50 inches of rain in some areas of Texas.</p>
<p>I saw Brock Long briefly on <em>Meet the Press.</em> He did a nice job of representing FEMA. I would note that he started out by praising President Trump for being engaged &mdash; not a bad way to start since the president likes people who say nice things about him. Brock says that the National Flood Insurance Program has plenty of funding authority to handle this event &mdash; that, is something I might question, given the geographical size and impact of this storm with flooding being so widespread, but then I don't administer the program. One thing for sure, there will be many, many people who are experiencing flooding for the first time and will not have had flood insurance in place.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Brock was also careful not to step on any toes when it comes to state and local officials. He highlighted that these are the authorities who should issue warnings and they will not be coming from FEMA. This is what having an experienced emergency manager at the helm gets you.</p>
<p>I saw one woman being interviewed about the total damage to her home and why she rode out the storm where they were. She gave a very honest and forthright answer, "We don't have the money&nbsp;to evacuate." So when we talk about why people don't evacuate before a storm like Sandy or Harvey, there can be mobility issues and economic issues and, of course, pet issues too.</p>
<p>I noted that there are other tropical storms in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa. A future storm impacting North America in a different geographical area would likely push FEMA to the limits of its abilities with shortages in "experienced" disaster reservists. See <a title="http://www.govtech.com/em/emergency-blogs/disaster-zone/fema-inflating-disaster-reservist-numbers.html" href="http://www.govtech.com/em/emergency-blogs/disaster-zone/fema-inflating-disaster-reservist-numbers.html">my earlier blog post</a> on that topic.</p>
<p>Lastly one news story quoted President Trump as praising Brock Long. They noted it could be premature, given the history with Michael Brown and President George W. Bush. A mental note to all of us on this issue of praise: We can be thankful to people for the work that they are doing, but praise might be saved for when the job is completed.&nbsp;</p>
 							 						 						  							    	    																																											    							    															






        	    				    	    																																											    													    															                                                                                        																																				

    
            
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            





																																

  							 																											 						 
    	    				    	    																						    													    															



																								

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