Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Former administrator of FEMA who resigned from his position after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many americans blamed him for the slow response to help those in New Orleans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CityGuymon, OK
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Something that most people may not realize is that more than 50 percent of the deaths in a hurricane occur because of flooding, and right now the entire Eastern Seaboard -- all the way from North Carolina up through New Jersey and New York -- the ground is just saturated.
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They should have had awareness of it because they were receiving the same information that we were.
I think we're witnessing the dismantling of FEMA.
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just assumed that agencies would follow up on taskings resulting from the calls.
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I think everyone in the country needs to take a big, collective, deep breath and recognize that there are a lot of people in this state, in Mississippi and Alabama who are living under conditions that, quite frankly, I doubt any reporter in this room is living under -- no food, no water, it's hot, it's sticky, their homes have been destroyed, they don't know where they're going to go next.
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People are getting the help they need, ... This is an ongoing disaster. This disaster didn't just end when Katrina left.
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I talked to the president twice today, once in Crawford and then again on Air Force One. He's obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he's asking questions about reports of breaches.
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I think I told him that we were realizing our worst nightmare, that everything we had planned about, worried about, that FEMA, frankly, had worried about for 10 years was coming true.
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It is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.
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It is inherently impractical, totally impractical, for the federal government to respond to every disaster of whatever size in every community across the country,
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He's a very busy person and that has always concerned me, that his schedule and his activities were very heavy.
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His whole life was his family. It's a tragic situation for everyone involved. These two young children, they have no mother, no father and no grandma.
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Paula, the federal Government did not even know about the convention centre people until today.
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Go ahead and do it. I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me.