[metmom]

Thank you.

People are going to be dying in those hospitals because of this.

I was just recently hospitalized for 2 weeks with a MRSA infection and while I wasn’t in nearly the bad shape that I saw many other patients in, it DID occur to me what would happen if the power went out and I could not get something as simple as the IV drip with the anti-biotics.

Reading about hospitals without power and the report of the fire in another one, and that only in NYC, they will be going through hell.

How someone can downplay the tragedy and toll in human lives is beyond me.

In all honestly, I have precious little sympathy for people who pay the consequences for outright, blatant stupidity, but this is something else altogether. This is beyond any human doing and there is and was virtually no way to adequately prepare for it. There simply was not enough time or resources. People are suffering and dying through no fault of their own, simply a matter of being in the wrong place, or wrong situation at the wrong time.

We were fortunate. My daughter flew through JFK last night and happened to be on one of the few flights that was not canceled and managed to get home. For that I am extremely grateful. However, many others are not so fortunate and I truly feel sorry for them. I would not want to be in their place, and it was through no doing of mine that I was not.

Instead of blowing it off, as some people have been doing, we need to think, “There but for the grace of God, go I” and pray for those poor souls who have to endure this situation.

We are getting a good, steady, soaking rain right now, but it is still otherwise a beautiful night, mild and almost no wind. I would not have a clue what was coming or going on around me without the media.

[tomkat]

NYPD dispatch just now .. someone stuck in a water tank

now, perhaps there's a good reason, but . . .

[NautiNurse]

what would happen if the power went out and I could not get something as simple as the IV drip with the anti-biotics.

Once upon a time in U.S. hospitals, and to this day in the field as well as in "progressive" countries with nationalized health care (e.g. Great Britain), intravenous fluids with and without medications are given via gravity drip. No pumps.

[foundedonpurpose]

FDNY receives hospital request for another generator, and large oxygen tanks, their supply is low. I missed the hospital name, not used to the accent.

[Marcella]

After Ike came through my town, the generator for the large hospital here did not come on. Critical patients were taken to San Antonio, a five hour trip. The ones not critical were stuck in their hot, dark rooms that whole night. No operations could be performed if someone came in with serious problem. They would have to go somewhere else.

I don't know if they ever got that generator working. I'm not far from that hospital and I didn't have power for five days.

When power goes out, one cannot depend on anything electrical working. I am, therefore, not surprised these New York hospitals have trouble with no generators working. I