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Haiti appears to be a good prelude to Armageddon, just as Katrina was a few years ago. The world has, for all intents and purposes, ended for the residents of Port au Prince.
Has the earthquake in Haiti caused you to rethink your disaster plans?
We lived through a minor hurricane in 2008 which does not compare to these disasters. The solution for us was to get out a day or two after the damage to local government and services was apparent. It is not clear to me if the Haitians have anywhere to go because all the news coverage is concentrated on dead bodies in Port au Prince.
For Ike, we had no local news as well. The news coverage was mostly about Houston. We had no useful on-the-ground intelligence about when power might be restored, which stores were open with ice, water, food, and gasoline. There was just plain no info, so we left town.
For the Haitians, it appears that they are starting to leave town. For us, Dallas with water, food, gasoline and family was few hours away and easy.
Since the news coverage in Haiti that I see is all about death and destruction, it doesn't help me understand if the people have another part of Haiti with power, water, food that they can be transported to. Perhaps Haitians are so poor that they didn't have power or running clean water most of the time anyways, but I don't know.
Has the earthquake in Haiti caused you to rethink your disaster plans? I would think that everyone in California would want to have plan on how to get out if the Big One hit. Do city dwellers have a contingency plan to go to relatives hundreds of miles away? Could you get there?
Has the earthquake in Haiti caused you to rethink your disaster plans?
We lived through a minor hurricane in 2008 which does not compare to these disasters. The solution for us was to get out a day or two after the damage to local government and services was apparent. It is not clear to me if the Haitians have anywhere to go because all the news coverage is concentrated on dead bodies in Port au Prince.
For Ike, we had no local news as well. The news coverage was mostly about Houston. We had no useful on-the-ground intelligence about when power might be restored, which stores were open with ice, water, food, and gasoline. There was just plain no info, so we left town.
For the Haitians, it appears that they are starting to leave town. For us, Dallas with water, food, gasoline and family was few hours away and easy.
Since the news coverage in Haiti that I see is all about death and destruction, it doesn't help me understand if the people have another part of Haiti with power, water, food that they can be transported to. Perhaps Haitians are so poor that they didn't have power or running clean water most of the time anyways, but I don't know.
Has the earthquake in Haiti caused you to rethink your disaster plans? I would think that everyone in California would want to have plan on how to get out if the Big One hit. Do city dwellers have a contingency plan to go to relatives hundreds of miles away? Could you get there?