FEMA Administrator Slams Failures to Prepare, Evacuate Before Storms
- No insurance, weak building codes, ignoring calls to evacuate
- ‘You see this enough in your career, you get ticked off’
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Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long angrily criticized the failure of citizens to heed evacuation warnings and leaders to better prepare for natural disasters such as Hurricane Michael.
“It’s frustrating to us because we repeat this same cycle over and over again,” Long said during a press briefing Friday at FEMA headquarters in Washington. “If you want to live in these areas, you’ve got to do it in a more resilient fashion.”