[KyARES] RE: [KYHAM] National Disaster Response Plan Needed?

A. W. ky4sp at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 26 19:07:41 EDT 2005


A comprehensive plan for response to any concievable
disaster is possible, but having dedicated resources
available to insure that every portion of the planned
response takes place is another story.

This is much like protecting a specific piece of
communications equipment from a direct lightning
strike - it can and has been done, but the
"protection" usually costs more to purchase and
replace after a hit than the equipment itself. Why
spend $10K to protect a $5K repeater?

There may be no point in having a plan beyond what
your own agency and its immediately available
resources can facilitate on your own, as the logistics
and reality of working with others quickly forces
compromise.

AW  


--- Pete <pwkw at insightbb.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kyham-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:kyham-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of N4AOF
> 
> >One shortcoming of the NRP (and the FRP before it)
> is that the plan 
> >deliniates who is responsible and lays out a
> detailed process for the local
> 
> >government to ask their state for help, for the
> state to ask the federal 
> >government for help, and for the federal agencies
> to coordinate with each 
> >other about who is supposed to help.  But nowhere
> in the NRP (or the FRP)
> >is there one single word about actually DOING
> anything.
> 
> >The difference between the military concept of a
> plan and the FEMA concept 
> >of a plan is that when the military makes out a
> plan, they write down what 
> >they need to DO, along with who does it, when, and
> how.
> 
> This is a conclusion I came to after having been
> deployed to Tallahassee on
> the Red Cross ECRV for Dennis. The ARC has a lot of
> material and support
> equipment that is useful in delivering immediate
> relief and long-term aid,
> but they rely on Fed Ex or their own ERVs to ship a
> lot of it. Consequently,
> the logistics can (and were) a nightmare. I
> personally loaded a Budget
> rental truck in Birmingham Al. with support
> equipment that had been shipped
> by Fed Ex. That truck then went on to Tallahassee.
> Two others went to
> Montgomery Al., and Jackson, Ms. Toward the end of
> the Dennis response, I
> personally saw about 20 24' trucks that had been
> rented by the ARC to move
> support equipment around. On the other hand, the
> military (principally the
> Army and National Guard) has a lot of logistical
> capability, deployable
> personnel and stand-alone communication ability to
> move things quickly.
> Putting the two together would mean that supplies
> would go where they are
> needed quickly, and a large number of logistical
> personnel could be
> mobilized in just hours. That's what the military is
> good at doing. 
> 
> I think in our zeal to protect ourselves, we have
> focused our military
> efforts too much on the outside, and ignored the
> possibility that the same
> kind of effort might be needed within our borders. I
> see our present
> situation as like a raw egg: we have a relatively
> hard shell, but a very
> soft and vulnerable interior. By involving military
> assistance for natural
> or man-made disasters, we can hard boil the
> interior, and make the whole
> more durable against exterior and interior insults.
> 
> Pete
> KF4VCC
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Kenwood TM-G707A Giveaway
> http://www.kyham.net/support.html
> 



		
__________________________________ 
Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 
http://mail.yahoo.com


More information about the KYHAM mailing list