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‘More Ready Than Ever Before’: FEMA Says COVID-19 Prepared It For Hurricane Season

WLRN 91.3 FM | By Samantha J. Gross

Published June 9, 2020 at 7:20 AM EDT

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Leon County Judge John Cooper on June 30, 2022, in a screen grab from The Florida Channel.

CHARLES TRAINOR JR.

After months of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic across the nation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency says it has never been more ready for hurricane season.

“Ninety days of COVID-19 response makes us more ready than ever before,” FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor said Monday at a press conference at the Miami-Dade County Emergency Operations Center in Doral.

Weather experts are predicting another above-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2020, which started June 1 and ends Nov. 30.

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