when spoke to the president, she also made the request to fema. everything that s been requested by the state of oklahoma to the federal authority, to the president and to fema, every request has been granted and we re receiving federal assistant at this time. so how does it work now, just so we d like to get a sense, i would, of how it works. you call washington, you call craig fugate, head of fema. how does it work state to government, in these kind of catastrophes? yesterday, shortly after the tornado completed its devastation in moore, oklahoma, governor fallin called the regional director of fema with our emergency management director, albert ashwood. they went through a formal procedure of requesting federal assistance for the four counties that were affected from the tornadoes the day before and the tornado here in moore yesterday. that was the semantics of going through the process. that would allow us in oklahoma, in any state for that matter, that goes through the process
and we re in his district right now. he s got boots on the ground, it s my understanding he s already arrived from washington. he s taking a tour right now with the governor. and i ll defer to congressman cole with any legislation he sponsors on capitol hill and what he thinks is best for his district that has been so devastated yesterday. i was just thinking maybe tax breaks for people or any kind of subsidy because we re all in this together. maybe it s a good thing to encourage people to do the kind of thing the corraless family did. you live in that part of the country, the god be with us, it depends on the luck of the draw. i heard in the last 24 hours sometimes you can be on the same street and one house will get blown away and one won t. what are the vagueties of the tornadoes? they they seem to cut almost irregularly. you can t figure them out. what s your experience in that regard?
not the exact location of where they ll hit, but the general area of central oklahoma was known days in advance to be the prime threat day there on monday. what happened was big upper air disturbance, cold pocket aloft, up 20,000 feet, 30,000 feet in the air came eat. the gulf of mexico moisture was getting stronger and stronger coming to the south. the meeting up and overlapping of the two kinds of air masses made for the vulnerable conditions that allowed explosive thunderstorms and ones that rotate and produce long-lived destructive tornadoes. without getting into the politics of it, we have a different climate, it seems. we had a tornado hit western massachusetts. we ve had very strange, in fact, scary weather. unpredictable, out of season. you know, used to be you got snow in the winter and the weather changed gradually until june then it got really hot here in july in washington then even hotter in july, a little less hot in august. there was a predictability of
you call washington, you call fu fwr gate. how does it work state to government, in these kind of catastrop catastrophes? yesterday, shortly after the tornado completed its devastation in moore, oklahoma, governor fallin called the regional, ashwood and went through a formal procedure of requesting federal assistance for the four counties affected from the tornadoes the day before and a tornado here in moore yesterday. that was the semantics of going through the process. that would allow us in oklahoma, in any state for that matter, that goes through the process to begin removing the regulation to hire contracts, contract workers, and remove the competitive bid process to seek relief on a quicker basis for emergencies such as this. i ve gotten an education on what you do in these situations and how devastating it can be. under around the new york city area, breezy point, places like staten island, the rockaways, where all the electricity is
june. then it got real hot here in july in washington. then even hotter in july, a little less hot in august. there was a predictability of the weather we grew up with. is it becoming less predictable? can you say it s called tornado alley with any accuracy and say you re safe somewhere else? well, certainly what we ve learned in research over the years is that what has traditionally been called tornado alley, the north texas, oklahoma, kansas, nebraska, iowa area has been a little bit overdone. there is also an extension of that that has sometimes been called dixie alley across the gulf coast states. in 2011, those were extremely active with alabama in april 2011 seeing such a devastating outbreak. so part of the tornado alley now that we realize goes from places like kansas and oklahoma, east texas, then swings all the way over into alabama. those are where typically the most destructive tornadoes occur. and this time of year, may, is this the height? is this predictably the heig