in regards to the deaths, look, i work every day, one death is a death too many, with he work every day, fema works every day to try to prevent deaths. the bottom line is there s a difference between direct deaths of the wind, water, collapsed buildings, things that kill people directly versus the indirect deaths. indirect deaths are always higher after the direct deaths in many events. you see car wrecks because the stoplights are out, people falling off their roofs trying to fix them, chain saw accidents, spousal abuse goes through the roof. there is a lot of things that come after disasters occur in the long-term. we have to concentrate on the pre disaster mitigation, fix the infrastructure that was crumbling before the storms in the commonwealth so we prevent this from ever happening again. fema doesn t control the infrastructure and how well or how it s not maintained in this case. if you remember, i had to ask for special authorities in the third supplemental to be able to fix de
goals. that s the way emergency management and disaster response works best. i also think i would like to point out that what we learned last year is that we have got to build a true culture preparedness within our citizens here in america u this is a partnership. and it takes anything from neighbor helping neighbor all the way to the federal government when it comes to correctly responding in recovery. [inaudible] sure, that s that s a great question. fema doesn t own the power grids in any one of these states. a lookout of them are owned by the private industry. business operation center calls. we are concentrating with the private vendors to make sure that they have strong mutual aid programs in place. we set up incident support bases to help stage power crews coming in from other states. and, largely, it s fema s job to get out of the way to make sure that the private power companies can get into these areas, to set up their grid. we don t own it we don t own it. but, unlike
prepositioning the federal government s assets to support each one of those governors that are about to be impacted with achieving their goals. that s the way emergency management works best. i d like to point out, what we learned last year, we have got to build a true culture of preparedness with our citizens here in america. this is a partnership, and it takes anything from neighbor helping neighbor all the way to the federal government when it comes to responding and recovery. can we ask you about preparations. fema doesn t own the power grids in any one of these states. a lot of them are owned by the private industry. we have business emergency operations center calls, we re concentrating with the private vendors to make sure they have strong mutual aid, and we set up incident support basis to help stage power crews from other states. it s fema s job to make sure
meanwhile you can t pay your guys over. fema doesn t do debris. we coordinate the grant down to the governors, the local communities to help pay for those. i don t think fema should dictate those. reporter: here at snappers, they re partying. everybody s staying, right? but maybe the best recovery lesson comes from a foul-mouthed bar owner. we are not leaving until really the [ bleep ] hits the fan. reporter: peter went viral by mocking the storm with two s-bombs. thanks to decent insurance and devoted regulars who helped him cleanup, they were open within days. it was a very positive energy right after the hurricane. and everybody s helping each other out. and the government is not doing
rate. should we be outraged about that? fema doesn t do debris. you know what we do? we coordinate the grant funding down to a governor, to the local communities, to help them pay for those debrises. i don t think fema should dictate the market rate of the private sector. here at snappers in south key largo, they re partying. everybody here is staying, right? but maybe the best recovery comes from a foul-mouthed bar owner. we are not leaving until it s really [ bleep ] [ bleep ], hits the fan. okay, you can t say that. sorry. reporter: peter went viral by mocking the storm with two s-bombs right before irma turned snappers to driftwood. it s completely gone! reporter: but thanks to decent insurance and devoted regulars who helped him clean up. what s up, guys? they were open within days. it s a party! it was a very positive energy