"I certainly think their long range disaster planning was terribly poor, at least in comparison to the local government planning I see in my town."
Ayuh. What set me off was a TV snippet of some local official ("parish" something-or-other) bitching about how FEMA wouldn't let his folks unload a flatbed trailer of generators until a FEMA flunky inspected them. Said they had hospitals without power....
Okay. Around here, hospitals and nursing homes and such _have_ to have permanent generator backup power. Hell, our city effing _library_ has a backup generator. I've designed a number of schools with backup power. One of them, off by the New Brunswick border, ran on generator power for two weeks straight after the Great Ice Storm. Emergency storm shelter, Maine style.
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Date: 2005-09-13 05:17 am (UTC)Ayuh. What set me off was a TV snippet of some local official ("parish" something-or-other) bitching about how FEMA wouldn't let his folks unload a flatbed trailer of generators until a FEMA flunky inspected them. Said they had hospitals without power....
Okay. Around here, hospitals and nursing homes and such _have_ to have permanent generator backup power. Hell, our city effing _library_ has a backup generator. I've designed a number of schools with backup power. One of them, off by the New Brunswick border, ran on generator power for two weeks straight after the Great Ice Storm. Emergency storm shelter, Maine style.