"To: jeffers
This whole thing was unrealistic. Why wasn't the Superdome being stocked, at least with water, from the very first moments? I heard on the first day that the NG had brought MRE's with them when they
arrived at the shelter, but the city and state had clearly not laid in any other stock.
I think the SD was a last-minute choice when they realized that the storm was actually going to hit. No preparation, no stocks, no plans.
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You have to open your view an order of magnitude to see this clearly. The city was expecting 35,000 people at the dome. That's 35,000 gallons of water.
Four semi-tractor trailer tankers.
Per day.
That's true. A huge amount of supplies were needed, and it seems that the city itself (despite supposedly having done a "disaster management plan" not long before) underestimated the needs and really had no plan in the first place.
Do you drink a gallon of water a day?