> but even before that someone in charge should have done some notification
> early on.

Yeah, it was a FUBAR all the way around. The "someone in charge" transferred 911 to the local fire station that was also under water, I guess without checking. Why it took so long to get transferred to Baton Rouge is a mystery; so is not letting them know.

The vital information here is that this did in fact get totally screwed up, and I can expect total screw ups in a major earthquake. Murphy's Law abides.