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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We've already started calling in additional troops that we have available to us like the Coast Guard Auxiliary, ... We have plenty of resources, plenty of people.
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Well, the state had their National Guard troops here. The state was overwhelmed because of the vast size of this. That's why, in cooperation with the state, when they made that request and said they needed that additional help, we got it to them.
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We were prepared but overwhelmed is the best way I can put it. We knew what to do. We knew how to do it. But because we're stretched thin, because we still had these logistical problems, it quickly overwhelmed us.
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What is tremendously exciting is we can see it from Earth; we see these big clouds coming from above these methane vents or methane volcanoes.
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I've overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters. I know what I'm doing, and I think I do a pretty darn good job of it,
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I very strongly personally regret that I was unable to persuade Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin to sit down, get over their differences and work together. I just couldn't pull that off.
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These demonstrate weaknesses in management and must be addressed as a matter of good practice.
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the single largest mobilization of emergency response and recovery resources in history.
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I see them picking up the trees, but it's the garbage we need to get picked up now.
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I serve totally at the will of the president.
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I understand their frustration and I understand these people are suffering, we are doing everything we can to make sure we take care of them.
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I understand that there are pockets where people have not gotten the basics, and we're working with the Coast Guard to get those,
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I understand people's frustrations. This has been an absolutely catastrophic disaster and so, we're doing absolutely everything we can to get the supplies into those folks.
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The worst impact was down in North Carolina along the Outer Banks, ... We've had 4,000 people or so who didn't evacuate; a lot of building collapses, urban search-and-rescue teams in there.