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FEMA Deployed the Appropriate Number of Community Relations Employees in Response to Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee

Executive Summary

In late August 2011, Hurricane Irene made landfall in Puerto Rico and again over eastern North Carolina’s Outer Banks. While traveling up the Atlantic coastline into Vermont, Hurricane Irene caused at least 34 fatalities and disrupted power to more than a million people. In the first 2 weeks of September 2011, Tropical Storm Lee, a slow-moving storm, struck many of the same areas affected by Hurricane Irene and caused severe local flooding, including floods of historic proportions.

Report Number

OIG-13-94

Issue Date

05/31/2013

Document File

OIG_13-94_May13.pdf

DHS Agency

FEMA

Oversight Area

Disaster Recovery

Fiscal Year

2013

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