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To: Moominoid who wrote (40073)	9/2/2005 12:09:35 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

RE: "Dropping things from planes in an urban area is dangerous." No, it's not. Helicopters are able to go as low as 10 feet above ground, so the drop isn't too far and is thus safe. The military actually has additional helicopters and personnel on stand-by but for some reason they haven't been given the go ahead to fly them out and release supplies. It's really strange. The military personnel have been put into a waiting mode. I don't know why they are told to wait - for what - people are dieing while they wait. RE: "The real issue is why there is no plan in the first place to evacuate people without cars from such a big urban concentration" I think there was a lack of three plans: a communication emergency plan (to assess how bad things are) and a plan for food drops, as well as an evacuation plan. I've also never seen the media so out of touch with what was happening initially. Normally, they are on top of things immediately. I think the govt relied too much on the private media communications to report things. And the govt officials that viewed the situation themselves from their planes, made a really bad assessment of the situation by not initiating food drops, which they still haven't done. RE: "they can't do any better back in the US either." I'm wondering why this relief effort is so bad, when so many US initiatives overseas were performed with excellence. The first thing they do with relief efforts overseas is to drop supplies into the area. I don't understand why this wasn't done. Possibly the Red Cross has more authority overseas than they do in the USA to take action - I don't know. Regards, Amy J