The former mayor warns of discounts in Fema. The failure of Hurricane Katrina

In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina criticized the Gulf Coast, Fema stumbled. The response was slow, political and broken. Bad management by someone without extensive experience in emergency management, FEMA collapsed under the weight of its mission. It lost more than 1,800 American people when the federal dams failed, and this was followed by chaos. It took nearly two decades to recover, and some societies have never done.

As a country, we have never pledged not to allow this again. As Bush Administration Internal security Counselor Fran Townsand wrote Katrina report after work At that time, “When local governments and state governments are immersed or deficit due to an event that has reached catastrophic dimensions, the federal government only has resources and capabilities to respond. Therefore, the federal government must plan, train and equip the requirements for a catastrophic event.”

For more than a decade, the country has made great progress in promoting federal, state and local coordination and capabilities. We fixed Fema, Employment leaders who have emergency management, who invest in the most flexible infrastructure, require the standards and strongest standards to reduce risks and financing that have tremendous benefits, have invested and better coordinated with government alert and local emergency.

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But in just eight months, Trump administration is collapsing 20 years of progressive -made progress by overcoming FEMA and expressing the ability of the federal government to predict disasters and prepare for them and then respond to them.

Since his return to his post, President Donald Trump put his attention to dismantling the same agencies responsible for maintaining the safety of Americans in times of disaster. I suggest first eliminating Fema completely. The completion of the Duj Dog operation of Elon Musk reduced the Fema employees by about a third. Among the people who left, they recently resets dozens of FEMA employees for migration and customs benefit at the height of tornado season. Even Trump launched the first appointed official for his saying he believed that Fema must adhere, and the current official will not say whether Fema will continue to exist.

Trump has canceled a program worth $ 3.6 billion to build a stronger infrastructure – the type of investment that helps societies to improve sanitation and raise roads and homes, and solid infrastructure such as power lines and prepare for the future before they hit disasters.

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In an agency sometimes known for bureaucratic operations, Minister of Internal Security Christie’s calls It has started to make a personal login for each FEMA or a contract more than $ 100,000, which, in terms of today, is only everything, causing delay in life.

In July, it is over 130 people lost their lives In Kurville, Texas, after the catastrophic floods invaded the Hill Control area. During those floods in Texas, Fema was unable to publish urban search and rescue teams in time because they had no permit. There was no correction, of course.

What would happen if a hurricane was on our way? Does anyone really think that the current Fema administration is ready as we enter the peak of the hurricane season?

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Despite the protests by government and local officials, emergency alert experts and the broader meteorological community, Trump doubles. In the last FEMA review team, Noem repeated that “the Federal Emergency Administration must be the state and a local leadership” and that “this entire agency needs to be eliminated as being present today and reshaping a quick response agency.”

“The credit for managing” says he is the credit for his management.

It does not stop at Fema alone. Trump has privatized NOAA and the National Weather Service, as the general alerts of life have been transformed into paid services. Meanwhile, weather forecast capabilities are eroded. Upon entering the hurricane season, 30 expected offices have no 122 offices throughout the United States.

Overcoming the Fema and the cavity of the agencies responsible for preparing for disasters – saying “Countries can do it” – not a plan. It is the federal abandonment, like Abi Mit. In particular, the scope and volume of response to major disasters requires that the financial force, the working power and equipment of the federal government be. Even if government governments and local governments lead, our system is created to require a strong federal partnership.

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As a legislator for the state, a lieutenant, a mayor and an official at the White House, I was part of the good and bad responses to disasters. If there is one thing you learned, then this is: response and recovery can only be strong like the setting in front of them. A good response requires clear leadership and monitoring, communication, coordination, cooperation and cooperation, and most importantly, the right -acting federal government in partnership with government governments and local governments.

Disasters will come, and storms become more dense more quickly. This we know. But how do we prepare, how we respond, and how we help societies to rebuild – it is up to us. On August 29, we put a 20 -year -old mark on Hurricane Katrina. We cannot let history repeat itself. Many – and a lot of lives – at stake.