Hurricane Pam
Sep. 8th, 2005 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinFascinating: Greg Peters talks about what went on at the 2004 "Hurricane Pam" exercise.
The scenario was somewhat different from what happened; it was the "storm surge overruns intact levees" scenario that people were talking about just before landfall, in some ways worse than Katrina. Regardless, FEMA made extravagant promises about their ability to deliver rapid aid, out of all proportion to what they actually managed to do; afterward, the comprehensive vertically integrated hurricane-response plan that was supposed to come out of the exercise never materialized because the follow-up conference was cancelled, apparently because the federal money for it wasn't there.
The scenario was somewhat different from what happened; it was the "storm surge overruns intact levees" scenario that people were talking about just before landfall, in some ways worse than Katrina. Regardless, FEMA made extravagant promises about their ability to deliver rapid aid, out of all proportion to what they actually managed to do; afterward, the comprehensive vertically integrated hurricane-response plan that was supposed to come out of the exercise never materialized because the follow-up conference was cancelled, apparently because the federal money for it wasn't there.