ArtInFL, I was referring to what we in the US can learn. In a country like Haiti, they are pretty much screwed. When the average worker earns two bucks a day, it's kind of hard to put back too much in the way of supplies.
But in this country, if each of us on here put in a month or two's worth of food and water, that is that much less the disaster relief people have to cart in to take care of folks.
There are two things going on at once in Haiti, rescue and relief. The rescue workers need to get their job done quickly, it is almost a week now and that is a long time to go without water, trapped under debris, in a tropical heat.
The relief workers have to distribute food, water, shelter, clothing and medicine to where it is needed. A tough order in the current circumstance.