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Howard Winter wrote:

>Jinx,
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>On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 10:09:37 +1200, Jinx wrote:
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>>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.
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>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,
>
You have to remember there are all types of building wreckage submerged 
in these flood waters.  You send rescue people in there in an inflatable 
boat you may have to rescue them when they run into
something that punctures the boat.

> 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?
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Again all the wreckage debris.  The hover craft floats on a cushion of 
air that blows out around the bottom of the "skirt" at a high velocity.  
They are not good for this type of use.

If you notice the helicopters  are sometimes very high in the air when 
the lower someone or lan a distance away, the reason is the "prop wash" 
that blows down.

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>Howard Winter
>St.Albans, England
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