Hurricane Irene Poses Test to Retooled U.S. Emergency Agency
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency, credited by local authorities for its response to tornadoes earlier this year, faces another and grander test as Hurricane Irene advances.
Even as the reorganized agency stages for Irene’s onslaught along the East Coast of the United States, stationing hurricane supplies in North Carolina, New Jersey and Massachusetts, another federal agency that tracks severe weather is facing budget cuts to a system that aids in predictions and advisories about tornadoes and hurricanes.