Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Former administrator of FEMA who resigned from his position after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many americans blamed him for the slow response to help those in New Orleans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CityGuymon, OK
either point wrong
was the tipping point for all the other things that either went wrong or were exacerbated.
learned past save
We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,
alarm anyone filling orleans
I don't want to alarm anyone that New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That isn't happening.
anybody bad cut expected gut hear knew piece red respond
I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could ... that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do everything they humanly could to respond to this. Because I knew in my gut this was the bad one.
ahead figure justify yell
Go ahead and do it. I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me.
father life situation tragic
His whole life was his family. It's a tragic situation for everyone involved. These two young children, they have no mother, no father and no grandma.
absolutely resent saying
I absolutely resent you saying I didn't have leadership.
came certainly community department deserves fire good mayor spiritual
He wasn't just a fire chief, he was a very good man, a spiritual person, very thoughtful. He certainly deserves this and, as the the mayor says, this is a person who came from the community and came all the way through this department to make it to chief.
beach choosing people stay
this was not people choosing to stay in their beach homes.
admitted mistakes senator
What do you want me to say? I have admitted to mistakes publicly. I've admitted to mistakes in hearings. What more, Senator Coleman, do you want from me?
ability action angles artists camera chosen project replay saved unique viewed views
What makes the project unique is that the replay artists have the ability to do this after the play. Camera angles do not have to be chosen in advance. All camera angles are saved and can be viewed from up to 72 synchronized views when the action is complete. Nothing is missed.
areas brush burn clearance creates feet space
Brush clearance creates the defensible space that's needed, at least 100 feet surrounding the house. Areas that did burn were not cleared.
hands secretary
but can I put it in the hands of Secretary Ridge or Secretary Chertoff? No.
allowed based builders catch developers last summer weather
Based on the summer we had last year, with all the rain, the weather now has allowed a lot of our developers and builders to catch up a little bit.