THE ERA OF TRUMP

[The Conservative]

Do I need to use smaller words for you to understand this?

What preventive measures would have prevented all the vegetation from making the roads impassible. What preventive measures would have prevented the power or cell towers from going out?

For me, have systems in place where once the storm is off-island, have offroading equipment to remove the fallen trees, etc...to get to the equipment and storage facilities to restore power/food/and housing as quickly as possible. If it hadn't been already cut power to the areas greatly affected, and start moving trees off the roads. Create makeshift blockades from fallen trees and debris, etc to guide water back to the ocean.

Have hardened storage facilities on the island to store water and dried foods, as well as emergency medications, and power producing equipment to get the island back up and running again.

Start from those facilities and start moving outwards, helping those you find, get them to higher ground if need be and treat those that can be, and make sure that as help came if it did from outside of the island that the docks and other ports were cleaned as best as possible to accept help as it came in, if at all.

Make sure there is a facility or two near the ports to make sure this is all possible.

The first 24 hours is imperative to make this all happen, after 24 hours it becomes a recovery instead of rescue, by 24 hours majority of all roads should be clear, and working on secondary. Power should start being restored, and food and temporary housing should be in place. It will start slowly at first, but as people see attempts to get things back up, people may actually come up and ask how they can help to get things moving faster... I've seen it before.

Now before you say this impossible, with something this severe, I'd be calling in the army, the national guard, and all able hand to help. So no, it's not impossible. The more you show you are ready and able to help more people will be willing to help. The longer you take to react, the less likely people are going to help when you ask.

[apeman]

It was me vs the entire DCF led by Hanoi Dan Chi Minh, I was just wading through his minions, taking them down one at a time, until only Carlin was left and he had to pull the chicken switch, and the only guy who was calling the fight fairly and not being a sycophant, was DBTrek.

First, Hanoi Dan Chi Minh is hilarious

Second, I wish I could read that thread.

[K@th]

It was me vs the entire DCF led by Hanoi Dan Chi Minh, I was just wading through his minions, taking them down one at a time, until only Carlin was left and he had to pull the chicken switch, and the only guy who was calling the fight fairly and not being a sycophant, was DBTrek.

First, Hanoi Dan Chi Minh is hilarious

Second, I wish I could read that thread.

I think someone archived it

[Smitty-48]

It was me vs the entire DCF led by Hanoi Dan Chi Minh, I was just wading through his minions, taking them down one at a time, until only Carlin was left and he had to pull the chicken switch, and the only guy who was calling the fight fairly and not being a sycophant, was DBTrek.

First, Hanoi Dan Chi Minh is hilarious

Second, I wish I could read that thread.

Well, that's when it went nuclear, I called him "Hanoi Dan up on the roof with his hysterical AAA gun, taking potshots at Jimmy Stewart & Co", and he went ballistic, that was the Rubicon.

[DBTrek]

There is no cliff notes version of that War and Peace sized thread.

It's like trying to sum up the "Atheism is not a belief system" thread.
Good luck.

[apeman]

Kath, who might have archived it?

[K@th]

Kath, who might have archived it?

I don't recall who was doing all the archiving.

[Kazmyr]

Dan losing his shit, in real time. Must've been incredible. I didn't think it'd be possible.

[apeman]

Same, I can't even picture it

[Smitty-48]

Thing was, that was exactly what he was doing, he was saying the same things Jane Fonda said in Hanoi, but here's the thing, I don't even have a problem with that, Jane Fonda is not a villain to me per se, she was a bit over the top, but she wasn't wrong, but, World War Two was not the same situation, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, North Vietnam, two totally different ballgames, all I was saying to Carlin was; OK, fine, but own it, if you're going to assert it, I'm going to argue in defense of Jimmy Stewart & Co, but Carlin wanted it both ways, he wanted his cake and eat it too, he wanted to pander to his Lefty base by being Hanoi Dan, but then he refused to own it when I dissented for the defense.