The ironies of ironies: Ex-FEMA head to start disaster planning firm

[dajoki]

Link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10198491

Ex-FEMA head to start disaster planning firm

Brown fiercely criticized for agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina

Updated: 10:19 a.m. ET Nov. 25, 2005

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.

The lawyer admits that while he was head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency mistakes were made in the response to Katrina. He also said he had been planning to quit before the hurricane hit.

[fooj]

1. The rat bastard should be in jail!

Take a look at this!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5452649

peace.

[dajoki]

4. i don't have words...

to describe the situation you enlightened me about. but we are becoming a cold-hearted society.

[msongs]

2. planning disasters or for after-disaster strategies :-) nt

[dajoki]

6. what the fuck is the difference...

he failed miserably with the entire task.

[dajoki]

9. none n/t

[cdeca2005]

3. or maybe......

fashion advise?

[fearnobush]

5. "Im a fashion God." "Can I go home now?' - Brownie

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[jokerman93]

7. Ex-FEMA head to start disaster planning firm

Ha! What's "Heckofajob" Brownie going to do with this firm?

Help plan disasters?

:crazy:

[Canuckistanian]

8. Josh Marshall says it all

More details about Brownie's new disaster preparedness consulting firm.

Earlier today I suggested that from what Michael D. Brown told the Rocky Mountain News, "it seems that Brown's actual angle may be providing not generic emergency response consulting services but rather consulting services to incompetents who've been saddled with emergency preparedness responsibility and fear becoming national laughing stocks when they turn mid-size disasters in to full-on catastrophes through gross mismanagement."

And the new report out from the AP seems to confirm it ...

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.

This guy's really a Bush man through and through, ain't he?

It's important to keep close tabs on everything going on in your disaster so as to avoid the true catastrophe of having the press think you're not on top of things.

It's good to see that getting knocked around last Fall helped get his priorities straight.
-- Josh Marshall

[dajoki]

10. unbelievable!!

[Pharlo]

11. Well, the man does excel at being a disaster....

Think Arabian Horses....

Think New Orleans....

The way I see it, the only one who's better at being a professional disaster is Bush....

Maybe someday, they'll join forces in disaster consulting....

[dajoki]

12. how to cause a disaster?

[0007]

13. I wonder if Michael Brown will be handling the emergeries that

NORAD?


"I think people are curious," Brown said in media reports. " 'My gosh, what was it like? The media just really beat you up. You made mistakes. I don't want to be in that situation. How do I avoid that?' " - Forbes

[dajoki]

14. "I don't want to be in that situation. How do I avoid that?' "

not the way you're planning.