There’s tons of good bottled water in thousands of stores and warehouses throughout North America (since so many people prefer to buy it for $2 a bottle rather than just drink tap water, which is also available in abundance). An administration which can’t deliver some drinking water to citizens in distress (while its President flies off in our Air Force One to shake even more campaign contribution money out of his rich “fat cat” comrades) is not only incompetent, its thoroughly disgusting!
And it would be flooding into the NY metro area, were it economically feasible for the stores and warehouses to ship it there, but "anti-gouging" price caps prevent it from being so.
>>There’s tons of good bottled water in thousands of stores and warehouses throughout North America (since so many people prefer to buy it for $2 a bottle rather than just drink tap water, which is also available in abundance).
And there is a big part of the problem. Don’t send bottles of water. Send tankers full of water. When Hurricane Agnes devastated Prince William county in VA in 1972, we were without water for a week. The Corps of Engineers brought in a portable water purification truck and emptied swimming pools to supply us with water. They also brought in tanker trucks full of water. We never got a bottle of water.
Perhaps the Army doesn’t even have that kind of equipment anymore. Makes me thankful that I work for a water/sewer utility! There may not be power for the service pumps to send the water out to the people, but our generators can run a few well pumps to keep the reservoirs full. Which kinda makes me wonder why they aren’t doing that and letting people fill containers from the reservoir tanks.