You asked for specific solutions, which could/should have been done. For about the third time now, here are just a few examples:
From last Thursday through Sunday, organization of equipment and personnel should have been performed to perfection. Safe staging areas designated to the East, West and North of destruction zone for gathering of both equipment and rescue personnel, I.E. Airboats, Rescue boats, Rescue Copters, pontoon boats . . . positioned into place as soon winds die down and waters are safe for travel.
Secure equipment and personnel from counties, cities and state governments from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, upper Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. Thousands of boats, copters and planes could have quickly been dispatched along with personnel.
Swift boats were loaded onto cargo planes at March AFB in California yesterday to be dispatched to the area. Why could this not be done DURING the storm?
Grids of neighborhoods could have been assigned to hundreds of helicopters responsible for specific neighborhood areas, with access via following freeways to staging areas to provide order to copter traffic. After a rescue, mark a bright orange "X" to show the house is completed. As it was, rescue directors said pilots were directed to fly randomly through neighborhoods.
A thousand small boats should have swarmed the waters two days ago.
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