Which is exactly what they should do - does Gates think there won't be/is chaos now?
People can wait for food - but water, they need NOW...
What's his plan. Wait until they can get people in there on the ground? They will no longer need water - just body bags.
In the meantime, my sil flies C 130's for the Coast Guard out of Florida - they are flying nonstop - on return, don't even turn off the engines, just reload and go..
The Canadian DART team being deployed has a mobile water purification plant, which they used successfully after the Boxing Day tsunami. AFAIK the advance party is on the ground and a C17 with the water plant should be on the way soon.