Originally Posted By: ironraven
Originally Posted By: nursemike
the non-survivors will be in no condition to complain, or more to the point, to vote, so who cares


An excellent point.

I'll see it and raise it with this thought:

Most municipal and state emergency plans I've had the opportunity to read over are about on par with the escape trunk on a submarine.

While working on the admin staff of a community hospital,
I was assigned the task of writing a disaster manual. Department of health regs required that flooding be addressed. The hospital was located in the foothills of the Adirondacks, and everything sloped away from it. I had research studies by state and federal soil conservation experts indicating that the site could never flood. unfortunately, regs required...so I chose to involve the staff. Standard plan for managing flooding involves emptying waste into plastic bags.

Quiz to the staff: Where should the bags of stuff be stored?

Correct answer: on the roof, well away from the flood water.

Most popular answer: on the admin wing, where they would be right at home with the bags of stuff working there.

So I stopped involving the staff.

The scariest part about writing this stuff is that someone will actually do what it says to do, rather than what is needed.
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