I ran FEMA. Here’s why you’re paying for rich people to live on the beach

My new book, Texas Flood: Power, Money, Politics, History, Bureaucracy and Tragedy, is being published Tuesday, and it’s available on Amazon. In it, I discuss why I was sent to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), how I would have shut down or radically transformed the agency, and how I overrode the Department of Homeland Security to ensure the people of Texas received the assistance they needed during one of six major fatal flash floods in American history.

I also discuss how the federally funded National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) unfairly transfers wealth from around the country to scenic coastal communities along river and ocean shorelines.