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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (39987)9/1/2005 5:05:54 PM
From: Amy JRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
RE: "Instead they act like help is on the way, but whatever help it is it will not be enough because we have nothing left here. Sheesh."

Agreed. The most important thing to provide in an emergency, is an accurate assessment of when help truly will be on its way. Rather than providing a bad forecast.

It's unbelievable the govt didn't tap available military planes to drop food supplies. That's a no brainer. Even American Airlines was able to fly supplies into the airport which is actually harder than dropping food from an airplane that's in flight (because landing supply planes get limited airport usage.)

They certainly have extra planes they could have used to drop supplies throughout the entire city. It's truly unbelievable they just let these people starve to death for four days AFTER they told them to go to the convention center and they still have no help nor airborn supplies dropped to them.

This is the worst disaster recovery effort I've ever heard of. It's unbelievable they didn't drop-off airborn supplies. That's a no brainer.

Edit: Read this article here - they wait FOUR days before declaring an emergency. Meanwhile, they now try to send *trucks* with food into an area where the roads are already clogged with traffic. Where are the PLANES to drop water/food supplies from the sky? And military helicopters to pick up patients?
cnn.com

Here's a list of their relief efforts - it doesn't even mention they have any plans for planes to drop off airborn-supplies:
news.yahoo.com

On a different note, have you gone to a Bay Area gas station? Someone at work said he paid $3.50 (or $3.75 or $3.25?) for gas.
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