The one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria making landfall on Puerto Rico has brought about a bookshelf of revisionist history ignoring the logistical nightmare faced by the private and public sector in responding to that hurricane.
As Hurricane Maria bore down on the financially, socially and politically crippled island, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was doing precisely what needed to be done when faced with almost third-world circumstances.
In those situations, the response phase can be almost perfect, yet the reality is the response doesn't meet expectations of the public or those affected by the disaster.
As we reflect a year later on the FEMA response to Hurricane Maria few people focus on the excellent coordination by FEMA and the Department of Defense.
If the response phase was excellent, what are we focused on at the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria? The death toll.
Instead, on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, the American public should focus on the extraordinary improvement in FEMA's response capability and its coordination with the Department of Defense in a logistically-challenging disaster.
Hurricane Maria showed the American public that FEMA and the Department of Defense are making great strides in improving that coordination.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/407491-dont-buy-revisionist-history-hurricane-maria-response-was-the-best
As Hurricane Maria bore down on the financially, socially and politically crippled island, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was doing precisely what needed to be done when faced with almost third-world circumstances.
In those situations, the response phase can be almost perfect, yet the reality is the response doesn't meet expectations of the public or those affected by the disaster.
As we reflect a year later on the FEMA response to Hurricane Maria few people focus on the excellent coordination by FEMA and the Department of Defense.
If the response phase was excellent, what are we focused on at the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria? The death toll.
Instead, on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, the American public should focus on the extraordinary improvement in FEMA's response capability and its coordination with the Department of Defense in a logistically-challenging disaster.
Hurricane Maria showed the American public that FEMA and the Department of Defense are making great strides in improving that coordination.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/407491-dont-buy-revisionist-history-hurricane-maria-response-was-the-best
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