Hurricane season has begun... still no leader for FEMA or NOAA

[Badger]

The botched response to Katrina was when the tide really began to turn against Bush. Trump better hope this hurricane season is a mild one.

Some in the meteorological community are worried at the look of the weather patterns so far this year.  They bear a resemblance to other years when there were major hurricane strikes on the U.S.

A "Major Hurricane" is a Category 3, 4 or 5 storm.

The last major hurricanes hitting the U.S. were the following:

1992 - Andrew (Cat 5)
1995 - Opal (Cat 3)
1996 - Fran (Cat 3)
1999 - Bret (Cat 3, sparsely populated area of TX)
2004 - Charley (Cat 4)
2004 - Ivan (Cat 3)
2004 - Jeanne (Cat 3)
2005 - Dennis (Cat 3)
2005 - Katrina (Cat 3)
2005 - Rita (Cat 3)
2005 - Wilma (Cat 3)

We've gone an unprecedented 11 hurricane seasons without a major hurricane landfall in the U.S. It's unbelievable.

Plus, nowadays, run of the mill common storms like Isaac 2012 prompt CNN full-blown over-coverage and over-hype in the post-Katrina world.

That's an unusually good point comma naso. Still, wouldn't you agree that even a category 2 storm can cause tremendous destruction and human hardship requiring leadership from FEMA and the NOAA?

Even more scary, since it is an unprecedented string of 11 straight hurricane Seasons without a cat 3 or higher storm, aren't we kind of pushing our luck here?