FEMA Knew! Hurricane Pam Exercise 2004

[Tennessee Gal]

HURRICANE PAM EXERCISE CONCLUDES

BATON ROUGE, LA – Hurricane Pam brought sustained winds of 120 mph, up to 20 inches of rain in parts of southeast Louisiana and storm surge that topped levees in the New Orleans area. More than one million residents evacuated and Hurricane Pam destroyed 500,000-600,000 buildings. Emergency officials from 50 parish, state, federal and volunteer organizations faced this scenario during a five-day exercise held this week at the State Emergency Operations Center in Baton Rouge.

The exercise used realistic weather and damage information developed by the National Weather Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the LSU Hurricane Center and other state and federal agencies to help
officials develop joint response plans for a catastrophic hurricane in Louisiana.

“We made great progress this week in our preparedness efforts,” said Ron Castleman, FEMA Regional Director. “Disaster response teams developed action plans in critical areas such as search and rescue, medical care, sheltering, temporary housing, school restoration and debris management. These plans are essential for quick response to a hurricane but will also help in other emergencies.”

http://www.ieminc.com/Whats_New/Hurricane_Pam_Concludes_NR.pdf

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. The "War Games" Kopple was talking about. EMAIL this to CNN!

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[Tennessee Gal]

2. Will Do!

[Lindsay]

3. Ah, there's the problem.

They practiced for Pam, and this was Katrina.

As bad as I've thought the Bush administration has been, they have proven to be far, far worse.

[Tennessee Gal]

4. HELP!

Tried to e-mail this to CNN, but I cannot get it to go through. Can someone please go here and send this info: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?2

It should be brought to the attention of the American people that FEMA ran a hurricane exercise in 2004 which described what could happen to New Orleans, yet the Bush administration is claiming this situation could not have been predicted.

News Release
HURRICANE PAM EXERCISE CONCLUDES


Here is the URL: http://www.ieminc.com/Whats_New/Hurricane_Pam_Concludes_NR.pdf