WASHINGTON _ With questions still swirling about its response last year to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, the Trump administration doesn't appear to have taken any chances in its preparations for Hurricane Florence, which made landfall early Friday morning on Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina.
It's deployed three times as many search and rescue teams to the areas in Florence's path as it had by the day Hurricane Harvey first made landfall off the Texas coast in August 2017. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has stocked warehouses in the region surrounding North and South Carolina and Virginia with 20 times as many meals and 40 times as much water as it had in warehouses in Texas and Louisiana ahead of Harvey.
President Donald Trump, who has bristled at criticisms of his administration's response to the 2017 hurricanes, said Tuesday in the Oval Office that his administration would pull out all the stops to prepare for Hurricane Florence.
