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I don't know that they are other solutions, just part of the solution. This is even too big for the federal government to handle alone, or ISO/Impact or any single organization.
Sort of like the Telephone exchange, they are set up in the old days to handle about 10-20% of their subscribers picking up at once. With the advent of voice and data, internet and so on..............and our disaster rescources couldnt be staffed 24/7/365 and funded year round for the largest possible emergencies....
I think Ron here has the best assessment. The scale of the disasters we're starting to see, is clearly trending towards greater frequency and substantially. Whether it's climate change, or just a trend, clearly the resources need to be basically how they've been for a long time. Big charity, big government (and make the government as economical and as efficient as possible). Sorry, these are very large events and a modern society needs to rebuild quickly ( a lesson we learned the hard way with Katrina... Smaller government President at the wheel). Basically, if you don't, what happens is things either slowly or rapidly deteriorate. one the FEMA does better than any organization, public or private is bring it all together. The private organization really soften the blow, but have no real response arm to run into a disaster area. Also, we don't even want to go down the road of these private entities securing the disaster scene. While there have been some serious errors and fuck-ups YOU DON'T want Welcome Wagon's version of Blackwater Security patrolling your neighborhood. That's best left to the police and National Guard.
Speaking of "Hacks" by the way, gig anyone catch Mitt's 'not so big' canned goods drive. In an attempt to stage a little publicity stunt, Mitt called together the event. While folks were generous, it was like any other urban can drive. Romney came with an inflated speech and you could hear the speech clearly written for a bigger crown and greater success. He'd clearly been expecting some grandiose turn-out and you could hear the "who wrote this?" in his voice as he read. It clearly had gaffs implying he'd marshaled some gargantuan rescue effort and he stumbled on references to :"these goods" as though it was written by some Vassar girl. who'd normally handled the business of sleeves up charity by sending in the Butlers.
Romney's speeches really aren't impressive through the unfiltered lens of CSPAN, that's for sure.
The funny thing is if any staffer had bothered contacting the Red Cross, or any other major disaster group, they would have been told that a can drive is not desirable, pallets of canned goods are but individual cans are not. Raising cash or doing a blood drive would have been of much more direct aid to those impacted.
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