I saw this recently on The Daily Show and I can’t believe it’s true. Above is an image from the FEMA Web site illustrating “the disaster life cycle:”
The disaster life cycle describes the process through which emergency managers prepare for emergencies and disasters, respond to them when they occur, help people and institutions recover from them, mitigate their effects, reduce the risk of loss, and prevent disasters such as fires from occurring.
At FEMA, I guess it all starts — and ends — with disaster.