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Analyze the strategic planning timeline for Hurricane Sandy, emphasizing those efforts for providing life sustaining resources to victims of the disaster.
1. How the steps taken effectively in ensuring supplies and materials were available to victims?
2. How were the steps taken ineffectively?
3. What single action that was not accomplished would you have taken, and how would the effect have been different?
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Planning for Hurricane Sandy are examined. How ineffective steps taken are determined.

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Analyze the strategic planning timeline for Hurricane Sandy, emphasizing those efforts for providing life sustaining resources to victims of the disaster.
1. How the steps taken effectively in ensuring supplies and materials were available to victims?

The steps that were taken by FEMA were considered inadequate by many as the appropriation of funds, which totaled $60 billion were driven by politics more so than by the actual needs of citizens. FEMA was perceived as ...

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