联邦应急管理署署长克雷格?富盖特表示,拿龙卷风与卡特里娜飓风作比较就好比将苹果和橙子相比较每种灾害都有各自的特点,你需要面对具体情况作出相应的反应。从气象学角度看,富盖特先生有自己的观点。卡特里娜飓风影响到的区域大致相当于整个英国的面积,并且是在形成后6天登陆的。相对来说,龙卷风影响的区域更小,形成和衰减的速度更快。国家气象观测组风暴预测中心协调预警气象学家格雷戈里?卡宾称,上周发生的是百年一遇的特大风暴,其中的部分龙卷风给予人们的预警时间仅有20分钟。
As a political matter, however, the comparison is hard to avoid. FEMA came under witheringcriticism for its slow and poorly co-ordinated response to Katrina, particularly to the flooding ofNew Orleans. Its performance this time was swifter and surer. The agency had emergencyresponse teams in place in Hoover and Tuscaloosa by April 29th, working in co-ordinationwith Alabamas emergency operations centre around 55 miles south of Birmingham. BarackObama declared major disasters in Alabama on April 28th, in Mississippi on the 29th, Georgia onthe 30th and Tennessee and Arkansas after that, making federal funds available to individuals,state and local governments.
然而,作为一个政治问题,两者的比较无可避免。面对卡特里娜飓风,特别是在新奥尔良引发的洪灾,FEMA协调能力差,反应速度慢,曾为此遭受了令其难堪的批评。而此次,FEMA行动更为快速稳健。通过与伯明翰向南约55英里处的亚拉巴马应急行动中心协同工作,FEMA在4月29日就已将应急反应小组派遣至胡佛和塔斯卡卢萨县。4月28日,贝拉克?奥巴马宣布亚拉巴马州遭受重大自然灾害进入紧急状态,29日、30日及之后又先后宣布密西西比州、佐治亚州、田纳西州和阿肯色州进入紧急状态,使得联邦政府能够向受灾群众、州县和当地政府提供救援资金。
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