Hi. I'm "from the government" now too. Sure, it's a podunk little township, not a big city, and we don't have the resources that a place like Washington DC or NYC does.

But you know what? I have the same basic training - the same course materials, the same access to information, the same guidelines, the same NIMS training and guess what? We actually DO care about disabled people. Not just folks in a wheelchair - folks who have issues with mobility, mental health issues, issues like a need for dialysis and so forth.

And you know how we find out about people with special needs? We ask - we send letters, we post notices at the town hall and we do what we can with the money we have available to do public outreach.

But ultimately, we can't go door to door and demand information from people about who in the house might be on psyco-active drugs, who might need oxygen, who might be blind. We can ask. They don't have to tell.

And so, in our emergency plans, we go with what we know - we know so and so at such and such address needs early notification. We know that the guy on the hill can't be without his O2, so we need to make sure he's got transport. But I can't know about the woman who just had major surgery and is bedridden and needs an ambulance to transport her until she calls and tells me as the river is coming up. And such is the nature of the business.

This article is almost hysterical to the point of absurdity.