Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Disasters

[gtober]

Problem is, you may think you are prepared. Then, something unbelievable hits and you find out you could not handle it. NYPD and FDNY are two of the best of their kind anywhere. Then, someone decided to fly some airplanes into WTC and turned Manhattan into a war zone. How do you plan for that? The 9/11 response was amazing. Every plane in North America was grounded for 3 days. That still amazes me.

Or here in NO. Lots of good people were doing lots of emergency planning on this. But, it was simply too big. You can't plan for this. You know it's coming, but when it does it overwhelms anything you could have thought of. Same thing in SanFran last time they got hit by an earthquake. Some things just cannot be oversome by good planning.

Now, it going to take good people and a good response. I find it hard to believe that in this age we cannot still do the simplest of things at times. Like food and water and shelter. But, that's the reality. Civilization still has a shallow facade.