Climate Changed
Trump’s FEMA Director Faces His First Test
Brock Long's drive to change U.S. disaster response crosses paths with Hurricane Harvey.
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Brock Long knew it was just a matter of time.
"We've gone 11 years without a major hurricane land-falling in the U.S.—that's a one-in-2,000 chance," said Long, President Donald Trump's administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in an interview at his office on Monday. "We're gonna get hit by a major hurricane. I worry that a lot of people have forgotten what that's like."