You literally wrote the book on the history of disaster management. Why do you give this effort so far good marks . Thank you for having me. I notice you said so far three times which is important because things can often go off the rails. But the first initial phase of response in terms of getting materials to people who need it and you have people on top of it who have practice and know what they are doing. What we have seen thus far is these things are coming together, and you have a top leader in brock long over at fema who did have table top exercise with his cabinet on the first day after he was confirmed. You had the governor of texas, governor abbott, saying he gives an a plus to the federals. Paul getting resources on the ground as the storm is approaching. So once it gets you dont have to scramble. They are listening and can respond faster . That is one key. Necessity did do that in this case. Once the storm hits, its hard to get stuff in there. You see people on the roads an
The history of disaster management. Why do you give this effort so far good marks . Thank you for having me. I notice you said so far three times which is important because things can often go off the rails. But the first initial phase of response in terms of getting materials to people who need it and you have people on top of it who have practice and know what they are doing. What we have seen thus far is these things are coming together, and you have a top leader in brock long over at fema who did have table top exercise with his cabinet on the first day after he was confirmed. You had the governor of texas, governor abbott, saying he gives an a plus to the federals. Paul getting resources on the ground as the storm is approaching. So once it gets you dont have to scramble. They are listening and can respond faster . That is one key. Necessity did do that in this case. Once the storm hits, its hard to get stuff in there. You see people on the roads and on the river backed up trying
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