The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday said the government needs citizens to get involved where they can and give money to assist recovery efforts in Texas amid “catastrophic” flooding expected to last for days in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
“Helping Texas overcome this disaster overcome this disaster is going to be far greater than FEMA coordinating the mission [of] the entire federal government,” FEMA administrator Brock Long said at a news conference. “We need citizens to be involved.”
“This is a landmark event. We have not seen an event like this,” he said. “You could not draw this forecast up. You could not dream this forecast up.”
“This is a whole community effort from all levels of government, and it’s going to require the citizens getting involved,” he said.
He said people can go to nvaod.org if they want to give money, and urged the public in affected areas to stop driving into flooded areas to try to make things less dangerous for recovery teams.
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