Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not authorize the deployment of Federal Emergency Management Agency urban search-and-rescue teams in the Texas Hill Country flood disaster until more than 72 hours after the crisis began, CNN reported on Wednesday.This follows rule changes th...
No. After the first 24 hours, the chances of live rescues plummet. After 72 hours, the chances are basically 0. SOP is to deploy ASAP to rescue as many people as possible.
You say this as if it’s supposed to be a good thing. I’m going to assume you’re either too young to remember it happening, or old enough that you were already in the conservative bubble. Katrina was one of the largest fuckups in Bush’s political career. He waited four days to deploy because he thought the death and damage reports were being exaggerated. He saw the official reports on his desk, and basically went “fake news! It can’t be that bad, can it?” His aides had to compile live aerial news footage for him to even begin to comprehend the level of damage that Katrina had caused. And they only had easy access to aerial footage because the 20’ deep floods prevented ground footage. Bush’s delayed response to Katrina is widely cited as one of the single worst emergency responses in American history. Basically second only to Trump digging his heels in and denying the pandemic.
Logistics takes time, and that’s why rapid response is crucial. If it takes 8 hours to get boots on the ground, and rescue ops are most successful within the first 24, you can do the math on how rapidly the deployment would need to begin.
George Bush hates Black people.
The reference, cuz it makes me laugh every single time.
I’m not passing judgement on good or bad, I’m asking “Isn’t that how it always is?”
If you send rescue workers into the middle of a violent storm, then you have to rescue the rescue workers.
No, it isn’t how it is. Obama signed emergency declarations for Sandy before the storm even landed. Katrina was the biggest emergency fuck up in American history and its telling that you’re pointing to that as your sense of normal.