the man-made disaster of the welfare state, page-21

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    elder,
    You are correct in the difference in scale of these disasters. Some people cannot seem to understand that in disasters like these, there is not a linear relationship between amount or damage/effected area and effort required.

    This is particulary so in this case where cascade effects and dependency on local power/communicationstransport worsen the disaster and impede the response.
    - Many access roads are damaged either by water damage/submerged, or by being blocked by felled trees that require chain-sawing
    - much if not all local power supply is shut off
    - much is not all local communications are shut off
    - local gasoline/diesel not accessable due to local flooding or no local power to run pumps
    - since access is blocked gasoline cannot be trucked

    As a further simple example:
    Katrina: 90,000 square miles badly impacted
    Land area of UK: 240,000 square miles.

    Can you image the UK trying to deal with a disaster of this magnitude made completely un-managaeable by the ineptitude and poor preperation of the local authorities?







 
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