I guess I tend to take these disaster situations too personally.
I tend to focus on what needs doing and how it can happen because of the mess and disorganization we witnessed after Andrew.
I know that there is no way anyone can be prepared for this kind of thing, but it doesn't have to be perfectly orchestrated in order to work.
Food and water drops at various locations at regular intervals shouldn't be that difficult. We dropped all of those lovely yellow food packets over Afghanistan, remember?
And that was a war zone.
Agreed... there's lots not happening that needs to be happening. But even though I think local and state authorities are likely idiots of monumental proportion, I don't think they're just deciding not to do things that they could otherwise do. I think they're trying to catch up as best they can.
Like Shep's rant earlier today about not getting enough supplies out with helicopters... OK... fine...
But how many Fox affiliated stations are there, with helicopters, within 3 hours flight of the area? There are hundreds and hundreds of helos that *could* have been there by now. I haven't seen any footage of a single one. But I've seen some pretty good aerial footage from a helocopter showing NG and CG helos doing the work.
[sigh]