[extropy-chat] Getting AId to people in need

The Avantguardian avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 2 08:28:21 UTC 2005



--- "J. Andrew Rogers" <andrew at ceruleansystems.com>
wrote:

The logistical infrastructure has been so
> thoroughly destroyed that there
> is extremely limited ability to deliver support. 
> Dropping water and MREs
> does not do much good if half the place is under a
> few meters of water.
> Can't drive in, can't boat in, and can't fly in, for
> a country-sized region.
> They are using what logistical assets they can
> reasonably mobilize under the
> circumstances.  Anybody expecting more has utterly
> unrealistic notions about
> the nature of logistics under the circumstances.
> 
> 3) What transportation elements can operate in this
> environment have a very
> low carrying capacity that is entirely inadequate
> for the sheer number of
> people the have to support.  If there were only
> thousands of people left
> behind, it would have been less of an issue, but
> there are hundreds of
> thousands of people spread over a vast area. 
> Massive airdrops are not
> granular enough, as there is no distribution channel
> within the city once
> you drop a pallet somewhere.

You have some excellent points here. Doesn't the navy
have amphibious hovercraft? It seems like hovercraft
and amphibious assault vehicles may be the vehicles of
choice for relief efforts in NO.
 

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