Ex-FEMA Head Starts Disaster Planning Firm

[electropop]

Fri Nov 25, 5:25 AM ET
(AP)

DENVER - Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.

"If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses — because that goes straight to the bottom line — then I hope I can help the country in some way," Brown told the Rocky Mountain News for its Thursday editions.

Brown said officials need to "take inventory" of what's going on in a disaster to be able to answer questions to avoid appearing unaware of how serious a situation is.

In the aftermath of the hurricane, critics complained about Brown's lack of formal emergency management experience and e-mails that later surfaced showed him as out of touch with the extent of the devastation

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051125/ap_on_re_us/brown_disasters

[FlaGranny]

1. Planning disasters

might just be his calling.

[electropop]

2. Ba-da-boom!

:rofl:

[brokensymmetry]

3. Consultant...just another word for...

unemployed and can't find a job.

[bryant69]

4. My time at FEMA taught me something - Disasters are Bad

Now that I'm not FEMA director anymore, I feel it's important to get some hands on experience at managing Disasters.

Hello I must be going.

Bryant
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[ktowntennesseedem]

5. He ought to be very successful.

All he has to do is say, "Look at everything I did, and go do the exact opposite."

[EuroObserver]

6. Maybe he can tell us what stocks to buy

when disaster strikes?

http://www.stockhouse.com/comp_info.asp?symbol=SGR

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. Well he IS the biggest disaster I can think of

so he'll have a leg up in the industry. Plus, he's a fashion god.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Getting ready for Bush to 'privatize' FEMA completely!