With FEMA continually telling us that more people die of floods than of wind, why don't they have boats at their disposal to deliver food, water, and medical help instead of relying on trucks that are useless until roads are open?
my guess is two fold....
1. the ammount of money and the logistical handling of a large number of boats (even flatbottom skiffs) can be expensive and enormous and a logistic nightmare to move around the country.
2. It is very rare that a storm of this magnitude that causes this ammount of flooding would hit that us and cause this ammount of flooding.