Because they are going to be providing you with the best advice in terms of how to deal with this storm over the coming days. We just had an excellent meeting with the fema team here, the various agencies that are in charge, including the department of defense, department of energy and others that are going to need to respond very quickly. Under craig fugates leadership here at fema, weve had a chance to talk to the region al officials as well, and i had talks with governors of various states as well as other leaders. Everyone is confident that the staging process, the prepositioning of equipment that will be needed to respond to the storm are in place. But as craig has emphasized, this hasnt hit landfall yet, so we dont yet know where its going to hit, where were going to see the biggest impacts, and thats exactly why its so important for us to respond big and respond fast as local information starts coming in. I want to thank all the members of the team for the outstanding work that
days. we just had an excellent meeting with the fema team here, the various agencies that are in charge, including the department of defense, department of energy and others that are going to need to respond very quickly. under craig fugate s leadership here at fema, we ve had a chance to talk to the region al officials as well, and i had talks with governors of various states as well as other leaders. everyone is confident that the staging process, the pre-positioning of equipment that will be needed to respond to the storm are in place. but as craig has emphasized, this hasn t hit landfall yet, so we don t yet know where it s going to hit, where we re going to see the biggest impacts, and that s exactly why it s so important for us to respond big and respond fast as local information starts coming in. i want to thank all the members of the team for the outstanding work that they re doing, but the other thing that makes this storm unique is we anticipate it will be slow movi