Me too. I'd disagree with #2 and #4. It takes a lot more than "hours" for resources outside of the affected area to arrive. I've seen plenty of asshole activiti

Me too. I'd disagree with #2 and #4. It takes a lot more than "hours" for resources outside of the affected area to arrive. I've seen plenty of asshole activities during a disaster - including someone stealing a water trailer at gunpoint from a USAR staging area. The technology generally isn't the issue - it's funding and having trained people available to deploy the gear. Florida's Division of Emergency Management (where FEMA's Craig Fugate came from) has a decent handle on this: http://www.floridadisaster.org/CIEM/2006/Slides/09%20-%20Interoperability-Information%20Mgmt.pdf http://www.floridadisaster.org/CIEM/2006/Slides/09%20-%20Int...