correct myself. when i pointed out earlier, senator, the blue is actually the route of rita which was one of the second largest, i think, storms of all of these and katrina was the yellow. and i said the reverse and i, of course, should know these patterns better than anyone. so rita was the blue. and katrina was the yellow. and this was done before ike. and i m going to put ike up there because it really ran smack in galveston. that would be interesting modern art. it s just scary that it represents hurricane, hurricane hugo came through south carolina and it was very devastating. i appreciate the work of the chairman of this committee. i ve never met anybody in the entire congress more dedicated to a cause than of this subcommittee. i m just trying to stay up with you. south carolina is certainly in harm s way. i want to thank all the folks at state, local, federal level who help our fellow citizens in disaster. in myrtle beach we had a huge fire. the fire did a lot of da
two or three of the gaps that you identified and what you re doing to close them? .. moi kim en and explained what capabilities of the mabey requesting and then summarized the table top exercise. i would tell you that the biggest shortfall of this current hurricane season probably is in the brigade structure with the national guard because the brigades deploying. even though it is a shortfall in certain regions and it s not a short fall across the nation s it s a matter of reallocating forces and the national guard is working closely right now with the state general to identify the forces that can fill the shortfall so the brigade structure was one area. another was the number of rotary wing aircraft that could be depleting. again we looked across the states and there s plenty of assets available. it s identifying those in advance who would back up to in the states and on top of that we looked up the active component both army air force marines working with coast guard throug