See below for images of our FEMA Tour on Dec. 17! Thank you to tour guide Earl Armstrong for guiding us through the facility, and to Shane Kading and Linda Bullwinkle for setting up for our club members to attend.
Whitney, Wendy, Penni and Michele pose with tour guide Earl Armstrong outside of the facility. The tour was Armstrong's last after a multi-decade run with the agency. He officially retired on Dec. 18.
During natural disasters, this the command center for each division.
Remnants remain of when FEMA was in operation during the Cold War. See here some vintage computers from the 1980s.
Our FEMA station was also the main one handling the disaster and cleanup from the Columbia Space Shuttle. They handle Region 6, which includes the states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.