1. Drink heavily.
2. Take a nap.
3. Put person down 4 levels in management, who got their Masters' Degree from a diploma mill, in charge of hurricane preparedness.
4. Tell people that it's going to be OK.
5. Flee to an inland city without telling anybody.
6. Disappear on a 4-day bender.
7. Hold a news conference saying that the federal govt. acted in bad faith to go ahead and activate FEMA and the National Guard to help rescue and relief efforts.
8. Disappear for weekend bender.
9. Hold another news conference saying that none of it is your fault, FEMA and the National Guard are supposed to be clairvoyant and magically fix all your problems without telling you or the news media.
10. Return to your office and pretend that nothing ever happened. Don't worry about not getting re-elected, a no-show contractor job awaits after you're kicked off this gravy train. The people that don't live in a million-dollar house and can afford a million-dollar drinking problem are just jealous.
Mark