Posted on 08/27/2011 8:30:09 PM PDT by sinanju
US President Barack Obama warned the US east coast was in for a "long 72 hours" as he led his government's response to Hurricane Irene at a disaster command center in Washington.
Obama on Saturday chaired a meeting at the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) set up at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, which is marshaling federal and local hurricane-relief efforts.
"This is going to be a tough slog getting through this thing," Obama said during a video teleconference including senior federal officials and local government agencies in the east coast path of Irene.
"It's going to be a long 72 hours. Obviously a lot of families are going to be affected ... the biggest concern I'm having right now has to do with flooding and power," Obama said during the videoconference.
"(It) sounds like that's going to be an enormous strain on a lot of states" that could last days, or even longer in some cases, he said.
Saturday evening Obama convened a conference call with members of his senior emergency response team including Vice President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, among others.
"The President was briefed on the current track of the storm, the weather impacts being felt so far and efforts to pre-position response and recovery assets," said a statement released by the White House.
"The President asked to be kept apprised of developments throughout the night and said that he wants the group to re-convene tomorrow morning."
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You shouldn’t worry, anyhoo.
Obama was probably at the command post for all of ten minutes. Just long enough to pose for some publicity shots.
I’m sure he thinks he is the smartest person in that room.. I can just see it....”folks, I’m in charge here, stop what you are doing, I’m going to make a speech and then I’ll come up with a plan in a couple of weeks”...
It would be nice if it was a real natural disaster at least...not this overhyped rain shower.
He is so desparate and he just looks clownish.
Don’t change, o-boopsie...
Hope he brought his clubs with him, ‘cause it’s gonna be a long night!
Brilliant!
72 hours compared to the last 3 years is nothing!
He’s a natural-born disaster averter, I tell ya what.
Just *look* at the sheer intensity and focus in those eyes!...LOL
[Oh God, please let us all survive the Disaster In Chief]
:)
Hey, he did single handily reduced the strength of the hurricane .... I saw a beam of light hit the storm
I’d bet any amount of money that he’s in bed and asleep right at this very moment!
LOL - "kept apprised of developments" = don't wake him up unless the Empire State Building falls over.
"he wants the group to re-convene tomorrow morning" = late, like brunch, and make sure a lot of those crumbly donuts are there, the ones with the transparent icing and the little sprinkles.
That's pretty scary. He said Libya would last "days not weeks" so I guess Irene might last months with a pronouncement like that behind it.
“Obama takes charge at hurricane command center”
I knew that he said that he said he would heal the sick and cause the oceans to stop their rise, and that his acolytes in the MSM call him a messiah and a “sort of god”, but now he’s commanding hurricanes?
my reply at yahoo: Irene is an opportunity to practice a dry run for dictatorial takeover. They’ve got the fema camps ready. Nothing left but for the union goons to round up the ‘terrorists’.
It is now a Cat I and weakening and the Savior now takes charge. What a phony this man is.
first heard this during Hurricane Floyd...
The MSM ABCNBCCNNNPRCBSMSNBC will eat it up with a spoon.
That Irene was a fart, wasn’t it? Nice telethon there, Broccoli.
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