Our town (Punta Gorda) was hit..hard. 2 of the 3 hospitals were knocked out and the first night dusk to dawn curfew was strictly enforced. People who violated that were put in a parking lot with wire around them. Our neighbors armed themselves and any "stranger" was asked his business and "to leave". People were stealing generators and breaking into houses.
10 days without power or water. We used pool water for toilets that still worked and cleaned up in another neighbors pool.
Best thing that ever happened to my kids... they learned that if you get hit.. you get up, clean up and move on to help your neighbors.
But the key was COMPETENT city officials and emergency personel. not patronage scam artists..like most democrats are.
For any DU lurkers or libs in the audience, when the power is off in your city and it's late at night.... my wife thanked me for my presence and that of the 12 guage at the ready.
This should be a lesson for all the "gun control" crowd. We are one power outage from anarchy. A well armed society is a polite society.
You have that right. You Cannot hire your political cronies or your relatives or people you meet in an elevator to do the most important job there is. public Safety should not be where you stick people that you cannot find a place for because all they did was help you get elected Mayor or whatever. Not much will be done to insure that the best,and most qualified as well as motivated are hired unless a big stink is made. There should be a complete review of what went wrong and the ultimate remedy in my book is HIRE QUALIFIED PEOPLE, with a good Public Service attitude.