Re a recent speech by Fugate in FL, see: FEMA head: Rebuild wisely after disasters. Excerpts from the article follow:

The hundreds of billions Florida would have to spend dealing with a massive hurricane on the scale of 1992’s Hurricane Andrew would dwarf the costs linked to Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy, the nation’s top emergency management official told House lawmakers Tuesday.

Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told a House subcommittee that’s why it’s important to rebuild coastal areas ravaged by storms in a way that makes them less vulnerable to future catastrophes.

“There’s a certain amount of risk out there right now,” Fugate told the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on emergency management. “We’ve modeled some of these disasters (and) they’re actually bigger than Sandy. We have to make sure that, as we go in after a disaster, we’re not (going) to come back and repeat it over and over again.”