On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:16:55 -0400, PocoLoco wrote:

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:47:46 -0700, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:51:30 -0500, Skipper wrote:

But one of them would not be disaster preparation.

Donno what glue this guy's been sniffing, but he's Just Plain Wrong. In
the first place, what little military we DO have is trained almost
exclusively for rescue, life-saving, that kinda thing rather than killing.

But we DON'T depend on the Military. We have several crack units of
search-and-rescue, disaster relief, etc. In Vancouver we have the Urban
Rescue Team, and DART from Ottawa. The only problem with DART is that the
Gov't has been too busy arguing politics to get them at Site in a timely
matter. I suspect that wouldn't happen if the disaster was local.

Lloyd

Put the whole article up. Do you think a few search and rescue folks would have
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handled the problems in New Orleans?

That's my point: there's more than "a few". We have over 1000 S&R crew in
Vancouver alone. So yes, I think we could handle such a disaster. Then
again, we don't have cities of 5 million people below sea-level in a
hurricane belt.

Lloyd