[EAS] Radio and Maui: A Failure To Communicate?

[Bill Ruck]

Kelly,

While one may not anticipate a once-in-a-lifetime event like Maui a good 
organization with good planning and good training responds appropriately.

Again going back to my days in a sailor suit:

1.  When demanded for the reason for something in boot camp we were told 
(generally loudly and profanely) "That is an excuse.  Now what is the 
reason?"

2.  Extremely rarely does a Navy ship sink.  But everyone on the ship is 
continuously trained to respond to issues that could sink the ship.  A 
waste of time?  I don't think so.

Unfortunately my experience is that most emergency services managers and 
organizations are never fully funded and are always kept in the dark. 
But when the one-in-a-lifetime event happens they are blamed.

I remember being told "Our last earthquake was in 1906".  Or at least 
until 1989.

Bill Ruck
Curmudgeon
San Francisco

On 8/22/2023 6:47 AM, Kelly Alford wrote:
> But how does one anticipate, let alone predict a hurricane hitting an island
> that doesn't include any moisture in an unusually hot and dry year?  There
> are likely millions of scenarios just like this one that can't be
> anticipated, let alone planned-for other than based on history of a
> particular geography.  Emergency planning and associated funding is all
> based on history and trends.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EAS [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Clay Freinwald
> 
> Bill Ruck wrote -
> 
> While I don't think it is fair or even reasonable to Monday Morning
> Quarterback the emergency services people in Maui it is also extremely clear
> that they were not up to the job.
> 
> I suspect there is some ' Because it's never happened, it won't'  Thinking
> going on.
> 
> Clay Freinwald
>