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To: KLP who wrote (343908)	1/19/2010 6:40:29 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

Concur. As I wrote earlier, the biggest problem in Katrina was not getting supplies into Louisiana and Mississippi. It was distributing them to where needed. I saw warehouses in Jackson MS being packed full because there was insufficient transport to move them further south where needed. Trucks and forklifts can move a helluva lot more than helicopters. Lack of trained warehousemen to organize large pallets of one item into palletized packets containing numerous items was a problem, as were getting fork lifts and qualified fork lift operators. By the time much of the supplies were moved south, a lot of the folks who could have benefitted had been evacuated to other states.