What happened

Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson left staff "baffled" Monday when he told an all-hands meeting "he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season," Reuters said. Richardson, who took over in May and has no disaster management experience, said FEMA would stick with last year's hurricane plan instead of a new plan he had promised would be finished two weeks ago.

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast last week that this year's hurricane season , which began Sunday and runs through November, would be above average, with up to 10 hurricanes.

Who said what

"Yesterday, as everybody knows, first day of hurricane season," Richardson said at Monday's meeting, according to The Wall Street Journal . "I didn't realize it was a

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