Hurricane Harvey: Trump's Federal Emergency Management Agency director faces first testFEMA Brock Long heads up the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "We've gone 11 years without a major hurricane land-falling in the US-that's a one-in-2000 chance," said Long, President Donald Trump's administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in an interview at his office on Monday. Before being appointed to the top job, he was director of Alabama's Emergency Management Agency from 2008 to 2011, as well as a regional hurricane program manager for FEMA. If Hurricane Harvey is as severe as predicted, the toll will certainly test Long and his agency. Hurricane Harvey, and Long's response to it, could test whether the country is ready for that conversation.

Source: Stuff August 25, 2017 09:11 UTC