Originally Posted By: Brangdon
Originally Posted By: bws48
IMO, we see in Haiti clear evidence that in a regional disaster, three days is totally inadequate.
Although Haiti is surely a peculiar because it's an island. The aid has to be flown in, to a single point, and distributed from there. It's a bottleneck even (especially) when there is plenty of aid on hand.


Brangdon is correct. There is currently, epic logistical challenges in getting our people into Haiti and it looks like there is going to be a delay of several days and in fact, it may not happen at all.

For those who have been following the news, the small airport there is completely overwhelmed and is limiting flights in from all countries...both civilian and military. This website shows the air traffic in/out of Port Au Prince.

Contrary to many news reports, there is plenty of aid in country and more in transit both by air and sea but the logistics of getting this aid out where it needs to be is proving to be very difficult now and into the near future.
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