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Editor's Note: Great Article on FEMA and Emergency Prep at the Atlantic
I'm actually amazed, the new head of FEMA - in stark contrast to "Heck of a Job" Brownie - is both A) a hardcore doomer and B) seems exceptionally competent. An excerpt from an article The Atlantic just published on him, emphasis mine:
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Fugate is well respected, which is not the same thing as being well liked. "If they wanted a politician, Craig’s not your man,” says Ed Kennedy, who drove ambulances with him in Alachua. "Craig’s personality is more ‘Speak straight, don’t powder-puff it.’” Already, Fugate is saying things most emergency managers say only in private. Source
At his first all-staff meeting with FEMA employees, Fugate asked for a show of hands: "How many people here have your family disaster plan ready to go? [If you don’t], you just failed your first test … If you’re going to be an emergency manager, the first place you start is at home."
In Florida, Fugate was notorious for what he called “Thunderbolt” drills. Once a month, he’d walk into the office with a large Starbucks coffee and tell everyone to stop what they were doing and respond to a catastrophe baked in his imagination. Sometimes it was a blackout; other times it was a nuclear bomb. Source
A bit later in the article, how he handles his staff:
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