Joe Becker
Joe Becker
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We've learned a lot in the last months. We have taken a large number of steps to be better this hurricane season. We will be more prepared for the worst-case scenario.
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If you think about the scope and scale, I am not sure we imagined some of our responses need to be as large what ended up happening last fall.
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It was obvious even before Katrina made landfall in Mississippi that this storm was going to inflict a monumental blow to the Gulf Coast.
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The scope of this is just so huge. If you took New Orleans out of the equation, Mississippi and Alabama would be a bigger job than we tackled in all four of the storms that hit Florida last year.
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This is the largest response to a single natural disaster in the 125 years of the American Red Cross, and there's no doubt it will set many records in terms of the length and expanse of the operation.
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They said they thought he might be a burglary suspect.
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I believe it's appropriate for the federal government to assist the faith community because of the scale and scope of the effort and how long it's lasting.
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All that money went to the immediate emergency needs of the people.