Having dealt with several weather related IT disasters during my career I can attest that these callers from on-high who interrupt you to insist that you entertain their extemporaneous “plans” only ever make things worse. You have to let the people you have in place to handle crisis situations do their job. If those people can’t handle it then it’s too late and you’re already screwed. Trying to make or remake disaster plans in the middle of a disaster is the worst possible circumstance.
What they needed were large generators on site quickly.
The US military could have provided that in all likelihood.
That didn’t happen.
That fact is, they needed help as evidenced by the results.