Out of curiosity, how would MORE police and paramedics stuck in the city with no gas or communcations have been better? (assuming that you're refering to New Orleans cops and paramedics) Since they're apparantly very limited in their ability to move around or coordinate with eachother, I don't see how merely increasing the number of them would have helped a great deal.
Also, mobilizing the relief BEFORE the hurricane has stopped actively destroying the city could seem rather dangerous. Also, how do you know they WEREN'T drawing up plans to help the place? (If you have a cite for someone in the know actually saying that they weren't drawing up plans, provide it and I'll withdraw this argument)
Also, it seems very possible that many folks just didn't properly grasp the concept of what a hurricane this powerful would do. I've been in two or three typhoons in my life, but none of them was bigger than a Category 3, and this was in a country where it's just assumed from the get-go that anything you build WILL get hit by storms, earthquakes, and possibly even volcanic eruptions. I had no idea that this hurricane would be this bad when it hit, which is a bit stunning to me, because it seems that if a somewhat different set of weather fronts had been around, Kat could have just sailed right into my chunk of the world instead of the next state over.
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Also, mobilizing the relief BEFORE the hurricane has stopped actively destroying the city could seem rather dangerous. Also, how do you know they WEREN'T drawing up plans to help the place? (If you have a cite for someone in the know actually saying that they weren't drawing up plans, provide it and I'll withdraw this argument)
Also, it seems very possible that many folks just didn't properly grasp the concept of what a hurricane this powerful would do. I've been in two or three typhoons in my life, but none of them was bigger than a Category 3, and this was in a country where it's just assumed from the get-go that anything you build WILL get hit by storms, earthquakes, and possibly even volcanic eruptions. I had no idea that this hurricane would be this bad when it hit, which is a bit stunning to me, because it seems that if a somewhat different set of weather fronts had been around, Kat could have just sailed right into my chunk of the world instead of the next state over.