There's not alot of difference between this love boat scenario and ones we have covered before, e.g. evacuating Las Vegas after a total power meltdown. I prefer to look at it from the ship captain's perspective rather than my own survival or comfort: several thousand passengers, mostly elderly, a certain percentage will have pre-existing medical conditions that would be exacerbated by the power loss. Parallel with sending an SOS and getting assistance, the crew must triage and sustain these passengers immediately. We aren't hearing about any fatalities, which is the metric of success or failure in most disasters, isn't it? They are on the motherf*cker...

The woman who complained she hadn't had enough to eat to take her diabetes medication might not have had as much to eat as she usually would, but she was alive, awake, and witting enough to tweet out her complaint to relatives on shore. Something tells me the woman may have never had enough to eat in the first place, but that is probably unnecessarily cruel.