indicating feet of rain, not inches in portions of the carolinas and into virginia. so this is a very dangerous storm. inland flooding kills a lot of people unfortunately and that s what we re about to see. keep that in mind. the other thing is i want everybody to know that fema and our federal partners have fully pre-positioned in support of our state and local partners. here again we re here to help our governors achieve their response and recovery goals. emergency management is a team sport. a whole community effort. as the system pushes through now we re focused largely on life safety, supporting evacuation movements and supporting mass care. as the system pushes through and starts to exit the carolinas, virginia and the threat ceases we ll be focused on stabilizing community lifelines. we have to quickly understand the damage that has been done to the transportation systems,
inland winds as this storm starts to come in and push into the coast. coupled with that is copious amounts of rainfall. as the system s pulling a lot of moisture out of the ocean. you re already seeing rain bands come along the carolina shoreline. and unfortunately, these rain bands are going to be with us for several days. we re going to, you know, the forecasters are basically indicating feet of rain, not inches, in portions of the carolinas and into virginia. so this is a very dangerous storm. inland flooding kills a lot of people unfortunately. that s what we re about to see. so please keep that in mind. the other thing is, i want everybody to know that fema and our federal partners have fully prepositioned in support of our state and local partners. here again, we are here to help our governors achieve their response and recovery goals. emergency management is a team sport. it is a whole community effort. you know, as this system pushes through right now, we re focused
what fema is doing is prepositioning the federal government assets to support each of those governors about to be impacted with achieving their response and recovery goals. that s the way emergency management and disaster response works best. i also like to point out what we learned last year is we have to build a culture of preparedness within our citizens in america. this is a partnership. and it takes anything from neighbor helping neighbor up to the federal government when it comes to correctly responding and recovering. that s a great question. fema doesn t own the power grids in any of these states. a lot of them are owned by private industry. we have business emergency operation center calls. we re concentrating with private vendors to be sure they have strong mutual aid programs in place, and we set up incident support bases to help stage power crews coming in from other states, and largely it is fema s job to get out of the way to
governors with achieving their life safety evacuation movements. we re focused on mass sheltering, and focused helping them execute their response and recovery goals. what are the chances it veers off course and the hit not as direct. unfortunately there s quite a bit of certainty in the track forecast because the forward speed is picking up, it is getting faster. when systems do that, the track forecast becomes a lot more accurate, and i think the expectation needs to be set with the citizens in this area that if you have been asked to leave, get out of the areas that are going to flood and get into a facility that can with stand the winds. let s set the expectations as well. this has an opportunity of being a very devastating storm. the power will be off for weeks, you re going to be displaced from your home in coastal areas, there will be flooding in the inland areas as well. these are going to be statewide events, hazards will be