The below video from FEMA isn’t going to win any awards for riveting film-making, but it does give some nice, brief insight into what governmental “damage assessment” teams do in the hours and days after a storm. (via FEMA)

Here’s one quote: “What we do in the meeting is pretty much discuss strategies of going out, how we’re going to do preliminary assessments—basically just do logistics and also strategic planning,” says Joe Stanton, FEMA’s North Carolina public assistance section manager. “The team effort basically is between the state and FEMA. We have individuals working together … to get the figures and also the damages together so we don’t miss anything.”

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