Jinx,

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 10:09:37 +1200, Jinx wrote:

>...<
> I'm very surprised to have not seen air-drops. Surely supplies
> could have been parachuted in, with personnel to protect and
> distribute them ? Reminiscient of those dreadful food scramble
> scenes in Black Hawk Down perhaps, but could hardly be any
> worse than what's happening now.

I'm really surprised that I haven't seen any *boats* in the television coverage - when Carlisle (northern town 
in England) had a disasterous flood in January of this year, there were people going about in small boats, 
rescuing people and so on.  I haven't seen a single rowing boat (OK, maybe they were all destroyed) or 
inflatable at all.  I'm sure the USNavy and the Coastguard has Zodiacs and the like, and with the place still 
largely flooded that would seem to be the easiest way to get about, distributing food and water and collecting 
trapped people.  I know they USMarines have hovercraft - why aren't they in evidence?




Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist