I have a friend that was a nurse during Hugo. She worked in ICU at the hospital that is right on the coast. The stories that she has told me are unbelievable.
Those nurses had to manually bag their ventilator patients all night long because the back up generators failed, I think it was d/t the water supply being interrupted. The head nurse came around and loaded up their pockets with syringes of narcotics to keep the patients out of it and they each had a flashlight which they only turned on when necessary to conserve batteries. The nurses were all in separate rooms with their patients and were scared and lonely not knowing what was going on outside so they started singing to keep themselves from feeling so lonely.
She has a bunch of other stories too but what these people endured was amazing.
MKM