Alicia Rea, chief of Emergency Management (EM) of the Galveston District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, right, discusses EM’s mission in a hurricane recovery response during a hurricane tabletop exercise at the district headquarters in Galveston, Texas, July 25, 2023. The Galveston District routinely conducts hurricane preparedness exercises in efforts to be continuously ready to provide support should the need arise. The district has been instrumental in hurricane and storm management and recovery efforts for more than 100 years since the initial construction of the Galveston Seawall was completed in 1904. U.S. Army photo by Trevor Welsh.