10-04-2017, 04:39 AM
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Originally posted by Eric1600
Hard to prepare for the crisis of having all your roads impassible and total loss of power. I'm not sure what people expect to happen on an island 110 miles by 40 miles with 3.5 million people. There's only so much pulling of you own bootstraps when your shoes are underwater. It's either ignorant or just stupid to think they will be able to handle it on their own.
No one is saying that PR should have to manage on their own - but, as is the case for Hawaii, recognizing that, living on an island, you are extremely vulnerable and that you are subject to the effects of severe natural hazards. A good place to start in protecting your citizens is to aggressively push an agenda of self-reliance for for your residents as Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency does. Do you have food and water reserves that can sustain you and your family for two weeks in the event of a major hazard event? If not, why not?