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To: brushwud who wrote (252724)	9/26/2005 1:45:47 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571806

You'd think a lot more boats would've been used, from the locals or the military. Maybe I don't think big enough, but my first thought wouldn't be to rescue people on a roof with a helicopter. Perhaps many victims of the 1927 flood died for lack of helicopters. Well, I agree with you on this -- but it takes time to get the boats into the city. The military had plenty of appropriate watercraft available, but because the airport was not usable they had to fly them into Lafayette then TRUCK them to NOLA via back roads (since I-10 and the Causeway bridge were both down). Even yesterday, they were calling for people with boats to help out in South Louisiana -- but then made it clear that it was difficult to get them to the places needed. It is clear to me that every person who comes into an area ought to be equipped with some kind of GPS/Location monitoring device and some kind of handheld communications device. If they had some central point of distributing this stuff for relief workers it would go a long way IMO.