That area must have a ton of small boats that can be commandeered for rescue purposes. Where are they? God love the helicopters and their crews but they are very inefficient for this type of operation. Maybe its me or maybe it's happening away from the camera crews.
due to the amount of powerlines down , debris and the cars floating, they are having a difficult time manuevering boats through without damaging the boats.
Many boats were damaged in the storm. In addition some are not accessible to the flooded areas. The flood waters are not deep enough in many areas to allow safe boating and power lines are down which just increases the danger in the water. In some areas boats need to be hauled overland to just reach the flooded areas.
7. Saw pictures of hundreds of boats, ships, and barges slammed
against bridges and retaining walls. Too dangerous to move them without inspection, even if people could get them unstuck or get to the boats in the first place.
It's all so sad I just can't even fathom it all. Those poor, poor people.
have been cut off by now and I can't imagine a small boat hitting a car at low speed is any more dangerous that dropping rescue workers from choppers to pick up one person at a time.
It's just hard to believe that there are not some boats available. I'm sure there is a logical reason.
10. I know this one from living on the gulf coast..
the boats are: in the road; on the interstate; in trees; in parking lots; in the aisle in a local church; on roofs. In other words, destroyed or unreachable by folks who couldn't get to the marinas anyway.
All fire divisions and sheriff's depts have rescue boats. But this is overwhelming. They need a lot of support from other agencies asap.
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