It’s September, the end of summer and the beginning of fall. We recognize it as both National Preparedness Month and National Hurricane Month. Since it’s the peak of the Atlantic Basin hurricane season, that will lead off what I want to talk about this month.
However, let us not forget and remember that this will also be the twenty second anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington DC and in Pennsylvania, where the passengers on the fourth airliner fought back, preventing the plane from reaching its intended target. It is from the lessons learned during that fateful day when 2, 977 people died, and years of work by many that the Incident Command System and our National Emergency Response Plan, now the National Framework Plan, have evolved.
Once again, our attention is focused on the Gulf coast and eastern seaboard as the Atlantic Basin hurricane season tends to hit its peak. Farther west, in the Pacific, the same type of storm is called a typhoon. We prepare for these events by studying the impact of past storms and planning
