Good points, cedfire.

I'm just thinking about Katrina and NO, where you had difficulty moving around, lack of communications, and assistance arriving from places with no knowledge of your disaster plans. I would expect these conditions to exist after the Big One in San Francisco as well and any plan that relies on outside fire companies knowing and getting to centralized locations to obtain adapters is not likely to work well. The article mentioned the Oakland Hills fire and how outside fire companies rushed straight to fires and found that they couldn't hook up.

Granted, the cistern system is there, too, but I'm just playing devil's advocate here. OK, I'll stop playing fire chief now. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />