07-09-2012, 11:20 AM
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Originally posted by james weatherford
What's the best way to dispatch medevac from a remote jungle area?
By air, perhaps?
Well James... Assuming the tree canopy permits such an extraction, perhaps, but then again such a request would need to be made by an emergency service responder. So medevac isn't very practical in this scenario. Unless it's known to be inaccessible by ground, it's highly unlikely an emergency responder will make such a request.
It may be time to simply write the State department of health to complain about the dust from the road as well as slow ambulance response times. For that matter, it may be time to write the State in general, governor’s office, etc. There are far too many people living in the Waa Waa subdivision, due east of it and far too many people using the road overall to upkeep it in basic gravel and frankly a waste of revenue. Ten or more years ago it was probably fine as a gravel road but those days have come and gone now. Why the county doesn't use chip-seal is beyond me, use of asphalt without proper shoulders or clearing back of trees and roots is a huge waste of public revenue as the asphalt will just be broken up by roots and erode along the shoulder. Chip-seal is the only rational answer for the situation, 1/10th the cost of asphalt, quick and cheap to repair with longevity to that of asphalt.
Just to clarify what I mean by "chip-seal" aka "tar and chip" applied over a compressed gravel base. The application can be done 5 to 10 times and be less than a single asphalt job, each time a layer is added, the road becomes thicker. The method shouldn't be confused with sealing an asphalt road though similar in application, not so similar in aggregate sizes used.
http://gormanpaving.com/tar_chip_paving.php
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