From: "Mark" 


"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:431d1234{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Lots of thoughts come to mind about that: a) no backup batteries? b) no
>> generators at the police stations for power for recharging (and ongoing
>> operations in general)? c) no cigarette lighter charging cords in the
>> patrol cars?
>
> That's what I was thinking, but in fairness, most cops around here have
> handhelds, and I wonder if they have standard batteries.  Pretty beefy
> things actually and pretty long range.

Well, standard or not isn't important (other than the salesmen that talk
them into paying 5 times as much for non-standard), what's important is
having back-ups regardless.

> Now the mayor and governor staff, I doubt they had a battery problem.

The mayor staff may have, but certainly not the governor.

>> Frankly, while I still think it prudent to wait until all is said and
>> done before casting blame, it surely sounds like NO's municipal
>> infrastructure was not even remotely prepared for anything more than a
>> heavy rainstorm, if that. That is probably typical, and even reasonable,
>> for a small PD in "Backwoods, WY - pop. 764" but not for
a full-scale
>> city on the water and situated 6-12 feet below sea level. Especially not
>> after all the radio problems that were reported after 9/11...
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming any one level, I'm blaming them all
> until they can prove themselves worthy of not being blamed. :/

I didn't take you wrong at all. I think your position of having them
justify their response down the road a bit is a good one (which applies
equally from precinct>city>county>state>federal)
>
> Seriously, I think the was a big problem in all this and it wasn't any one
> group, but all in the disaster chain of command.

See above, yes that is exactly what I mean by not wanting to cast blame at
so early a date, it's simply not worthwhile to do so in the midst of the
rescue and recovery operations -- there needs to be a forensic examination
later.

> And as for backwoods WY, I don't remember that town, and I used to live in
> WY. I've driven through smaller cities there... 

Like the ones that have pop. 124 on the sign, then scratch it out to write
in 125 when a baby is born? 

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