[dirtboy]

This is just so sad, isn't it? The very things we discussed would have helped with most of these problems.

And I'm a friggin' amateur. So are most of the folks on FR. Yet we can come up with simple ideas.

Unfortunately, too many folks only know how to say why something cannot be done, instead of just working through it and accomplishing something, even if it only gets you 80 percent there. Because now the evacuation process is much, MUCH more difficult - and the clock is ticking before fresh water runs out and diseases break out.

[King Prout]

you ain't wrong.

[NittanyLion]

Unfortunately, too many folks only know how to say why something cannot be done, instead of just working through it and accomplishing something, even if it only gets you 80 percent there. Because now the evacuation process is much, MUCH more difficult - and the clock is ticking before fresh water runs out and diseases break out.

Yep. So now we're deploying limited resources to evacuate 100K people, when we should've been directing those same resources at far fewer people. It slows down the overall effort, because SAR folks are spread too thin.