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They've been hoping the sheet would hit the fan for the last week. Too bad for them they won't have a big group of storm "victims" to try and get ratings off of or anybody to blame. Globals must be upset too. First hurricane in like three years to hit and its not the one they need to prop back up their warming insanity. Maybe next time folks.
Seriously...your happy about this? There are soo many that have lost their homes and property and could care less about the tit for tat taunting of this Administration.
"What’s easier to evaluate is how much coverage Hurricane Irene received in comparison with other hurricanes. By that standard, the coverage was quite proportionate to the amount of death and destruction that the storm caused."
New York (CNN) -- Six years after "Katrina" became shorthand for a botched response to a crisis, authorities at all levels of government are winning praise for their handling of Hurricane Irene.
"Who would have thought, here we are, six years later, and instead of debating failures, we're debating being overprepared?" Chad Sweet, who served as chief of staff to former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, said Monday. "I think it's a good thing."
Katrina was an unmitigated, confused, chaotic disaster at all levels of government. Things have improved quite a bit since then, which is pretty quick by government standards.
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The name "Katrina" quickly became a standard-issue epithet after the 2005 disaster. Critics tried to dub the 2010 Gulf oil disaster "Obama's Katrina," while a paralyzing Northeastern blizzard the following December became either "Christie's Katrina" or "Bloomberg's Katrina," depending on one's side of the Hudson and political bent.
Ahead of Irene, Fugate -- a veteran of numerous hurricanes in his previous job as Florida's emergency management chief -- dismissed suggestions that the warnings being issued were tinged by fears of a repeat of the 2005 storm.
"This is how I've always been operating," he told CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" on Friday. "This is how we did it when I was in Florida. This is what we do here in the president's administration, as we bring the team together. We get the team ready. We prepare for the worst and hope for the best. But we're not going to wait to find how bad it is before we get ready."
Read that article and see how real grownups talk about their jobs. FEMA, as well as the myriad of state and local agencies and teams, have labored through various catastrophes since then. From Texas all the way north, through floods, tornadoes, and everything in between. If you look at the federal dollars that have been spent aiding, assisting and rebuilding the various states involved in the disasters, you'd have to wonder how those states could have gotten by without it.
If you had relatives or friends on the east coast you'd have been glued to your TV set and would have appreciated the 24/7 coverage. Aside from that, twenty-five percentage of the U.S. population was in harm's way of hurricane Irene. When is the last time you can say an event effected that many Americans all within the same weekend? That fact in itself made it a HUGE story.
Thatis true. I don't think we have ever had a natural disaster which has caused severe damage in 10 states.
Actually, in Katrina and Wilma in Miami, it was the winds that did most of the damage, not the water.
Katrina was only a Cat-1 in Miami, and grew later to hit NO with force and cause the water related damage there. The water is usually the bigger problem.
If you had relatives or friends on the east coast you'd have been glued to your TV set and would have appreciated the 24/7 coverage. Aside from that, twenty-five percentage of the U.S. population was in harm's way of hurricane Irene. When is the last time you can say an event effected that many Americans all within the same weekend? That fact in itself made it a HUGE story.
For all you people that didn't like the coverage don't you know how to change the channel? or watch a movie?
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? I thought New Orleans got flooded the day of the storm...
