03-15-2011, 07:46 AM
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Originally posted by spunky... These were NOT Red cross shelters; they were evacuation shelters and County Parks & Rec were in charge....
If you have a complaint about the cot situation, you should take it up with Parks & Recd. Personally, IMO they were already lucky to have the 10 cots because we didn't even have that.
Sorry, Spunky. County parks and Rec, not Red Cross. We only drove by the parking lot. That'll be even easier to write the COH P&R Dept head. If it was Red Cross I wouldnt do it as they have their hands full still yet.
The issue was not cots being there. A P&R worker said "We only put 10 together unless there is damage". My friend offered to help put some or all of the other packed cots that were THERE ON SITE together and take them apart and pack back up when done to help them.
I dont know if you saw that part in my post, it does change how it is perceived. The cots were available, and the workers refused to allow any one to put more than 10 together.
and yes, of course, everyone should have been prepared with everything. But it was a emergency situation and people dont always think about what they will need. I just realized in my emergency kit that I either need ground coffee in it or a hand grinder. And we needed this same thing 3 weeks ago when tree fell on power line so I should have done it already and I havent (yet).
And of course, the 85 yr old couple was lucky they had a car to sleep in, or they are lucky they have a neat little house in Kapoho to have to evacuate from. We are all lucky nothing much happened on the East side.
Honestly, IMHO, this is a case of where "by the book" overcame "common sense and volunteerism".
-Cat