Ever hear of the disaster mitigation effort "Project Impact" from FEMA to
build a disaster resistant community? Did quite well, for example it helped
prevent major damage in the earthquake in the Puget Sound area do to the
retrofitting done. Plus it only had a $20 million nation wide budget.
Unfortunatly the Bush administration cut the budget in 2001.
Earlier this year Bush cut the disaster preparedness function from FEMA.
See an important thing to do in disasters is too look at what went wrong and
what could have been done better. And sure blaming others just to place
blame is wrong, but then when lessons learned from previous disasters are
ignored then it is proper to assign blame. Remember hurricane Andrew in
1992? After that FEMA changed its central role from civil defense
preparations to a focus on natural disaster preparedness and disaster
mitigation.
Eli
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From: FORC5
To: The Hardware List
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina
that would be a good trick
At 02:15 PM 8/31/2005, Al Poked the stick with:
I say, government's job was
to prevent catastrophes like Katrina,
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Tallyho ! ]:8)
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