“What we know for sure is that we avoided the worst-case scenario we prepared for.” This is what the director of Fema, the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the USA, Deanne Criswell, said in an interview with CNN, adding about Hurricane Milton that «preparing for the worst made the response to the impact possible had, the most significant caused by the tornadoes that occurred throughout the region”. This does not mean, he highlighted, that Florida will not need resources, but perhaps it will not need the “level of resources” that had been assumed.
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Criswell also noted a “decrease” in fake news and misinformation about Hurricane Milton compared to that circulating about Helene. Also thanks, he underlined, “to the great support from governors, members of Congress and local leaders who have truly helped to reject this misinformation”. Two weeks after the passage of Hurricane Helene which caused at least 236 deaths in the southeastern United States, including at least 15 in Florida, Milton, in Criswell’s words, presented itself as “a deadly and catastrophic storm”.
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