Re: We're still not ready


"Harry Krause" <harry.krause@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3sl2gaFom9d9U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> October 30, 2005
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> Many Floridians at risk since Wilma cut power
>
>
> Knight Ridder Newspapers MIAMI -- Still largely power-less Saturday, South
> Florida confronted new issues: storm-related injuries, jammed emergency
> rooms and deteriorating conditions for the ill, the frail and the elderly.
>
> "If the power isn't restored to the high-rises soon, we're going to be
> seeing some real medical problems in the elderly, and quite possibly some
> dead," said Michael Weston, Broward County fire rescue medical chief.
> Scores of frail people have been unable to leave their upper-level
> apartments since the storm struck Monday because elevators are out of
> service.
>
> - - -
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> What Katrina and Wilma have shown is that the federal government, four
> years after 9-11, is NOT prepared to act properly after a major disaster,
> natural or manmade.
>

Pssst. Hey Harry...
The electric companies are privately owned.



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