Trump administration got a 5-day warning that Maria would be a disaster, so why the surprise?

In 1900, a fierce hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, where its wall of water pushed ashore, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people. The Galveston hurricane remains the deadliest hurricane on record in U.S. history, mainly because none of those storm victims had any idea that the storm was coming. 

Fast forward more than a century, to when Hurricane Maria tore across the Caribbean, decimating islands including Dominica, St. Croix, and eventually, the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. This time, an armada of weather observing systems ensured that no one was surprised by the Category 5 storm, including federal disaster management officials and the White House. Read more...

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