[Fido969]

I guess my point is that they seem to not be acting so much as re-acting and coming up with half-baked solutions off the cuff as each new disaster rears its ugly head.

Well, they flipped to the page in the Operating Manual for "9.1 quake, 30 foot tsumani and loss of generator power" and found:

[rlmorel]

Thanks. In such a grim situation, that sure did make me smile.

Those poor people need a break.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

"9.1 quake, 30 foot tsumani and loss of generator power"

I understand the scale of the disaster. But there's a God made problem here, well a couple of them, and a man-made problem here.

I guess I'm just hard-pressed to understand why at the start they couldn't get the pumps activated. Your generators are screwed? Fine, fly in some replacements. You need to get water into the plants? Fine, FLY in some heavy duty pumps to do the job.

I know I'm second guessing here, but from day one I've wondered why they couldnt fly in generators to keep those pumps running.

[lonevoice]

So sad. So true. They are the ones that my heart and prayers most reach out to. Unimaginable what those 50 people must be going through.