you've got to wonder, if you had warehouses stored with supplies for hurricanes, would you keep them in atlanta? wouldn't you want to keep them in locales more accessible to Florida, and to the SC/NC coastal areas, where they tend to hit?
I imagine they're coming in from a lot of places. But they can send the stuff from Atlanta now becuase by the time it gets there it will be safe to go in. The folks closer are probably still having to wait.
Atlanta to Orlando is only an 8 hour drive.
Well, Atlanta is close enough where there's little danger of the supplies and stuff being damaged or destroyed by hurricanes and such that can hit any part of Florida...
I think it makes sense, when you also realize that the supplies are not just there for Florida, but for other disasters that may strike other states in the SE. Atlanta is pretty much the hub of the SE, with easy accessibility to the surrounding areas. Again, it makes sense from a deployment perspective :0)
You want the supplies far enough inland they don't get destroyed, yet centrally located to places that may be hit hard like Florida and North Carolina, with an excellent road network radiating out to all those places.
Sounds like....Atlanta.
I guess the thinking is that you want to keep the emergency supplies CLOSE but not IN the areas most likely to be damaged. How much good would it have been if you had a warehouse full of supplies in Ft. Meyers and then have that warehouse destroyed by the hurricane. Same reason you wouldn't put an ammo dump right on the front lines.