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Originally Posted by Botnst
The disaster area is the size of Great Britain. The core area encompasses about 2 million people who ahve no food, water or sanitation. An adult human being requires food and water and sanitation to survive and they have none.
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That's say 10 million liters, 6 million MRE's and about a million cubic feet of latrines per day. In that part of Louisiana, a trench is not an especially useful idea. How many portalets would be required for 2 million people and where would you stage them and where would you place them?
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Yes the numbers are just overwhelming. I doubt if we even have the bottled water and MRE's anywhere, but that goes to the heart of this homeland prepairedness thing. I think this particular event was one of FEMA's top five potential emergencies that they'd planned out already. I'd hope the news people and photogs have water to offer the people they're interviewing all day long.
I'm haunted by the scene of this despeate mom whose baby was going out on her. I've been to war, and this is causeing me a lot of stress - because I'm not there and just have to watch I think.