Perry: Lessons learned from storms past

Gov. Rick Perry, SPECIAL CONTRIBUTER

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Two years there was a Hurricane, Hurricane Ike its destroyed trees the trees were were uprooted cities were flooded and homes.Hurricane Ike devasted schools and churches, businessess and farmes, communitites and families alike.

The progress had been made in rebuilding, both property and lives. We also learned from the past experiences, we learn to pre-position our resources at the point of attack, so when Ike hit the shores of Galveston in the early hours of Sept 13, 2008 the first responders-including Texas Task Force 1 and 2 Texas Military Forces-were in the place to rescued, checks were conducted on nearly 6,000 others.

When we saw the impact of the Hurricanes on the amimals and livestock left behind during storm evacutions,we created the state Animals Response Team, tasked with caring for and controlling these animals effectively and humanely.

The guiding principle thought is the local people know best how to deal with local problems, and its up to the state to do everything possible to help these officals responed quickly and get assistance to the people in harm's way.

In this article I agree with what its saying about the help from the people to clean up after the Hurricane Ike and after Katrina the people that where hit by it. The people were familiar because the people that were hit by it and again with Ike. The local people know how to best to deal with this problem. And the people had the instinct to help comes naturally to texans where the neighbors helping other neighbors is more than saying, it's saying a way of life. Volunteers even came to help clean up the trees, rubish around the neighborhood. Their were even people came to people stranded stranded in its aftermath.