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its possible that since there are like 147 hospitals on the island, that the ship would not be needed.
In which case, it would have been a drill and everyone could go home, relieved that all was well.
Let's get real here. What are the chances that that Puerto Rico with its crumbling infrastructure would have the hospitals that would be able to deal with a Cat 4 hurricane?
But they also knew that there were going to be major power problems, I don't think anyone could have guessed to this extent, but everyone knew this was going to be a major disaster. I see no excuse as to why they didn't get ready. They waited how many days after all the hospitals were out of electrify to get ready? When they saw that the entire island had lost power, they should have known immediately that they needed to get ready.
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Originally Posted by jacqueg
Um, sure. The entire island is flattened, there is no electricity. But the hospitals are functional.
There is no logic or reason behind not getting that hospital ship ASAP.
The port would be open by the time they got there.
If not, they could have ferried people out in boats.
Wake up.
Not staffing that boat and sending it out was a **** move. It could have sailed out in the gulf until the storm cleared.
Sending the Comfort may be a decision just made after they made their assessment of the destruction and figured out that the electric ain't coming on anytime soon.
The phone system is also shot (more infrastructure neglect) and they are going to be setting up a satellite phone service.
Who knew PR would end up like Haiti after the earthquake ?
Some of us think that the Comfort should have been placed on standby status as soon as it was clear that PR was in Maria's path.
Apparently it takes several days to fully staff the thing. Had those staffers been alerted that Comfort was sailing as soon as the weather allowed, they'd be on their way now. Many of these staffers are civilians, BTW.
Which still isn't now due to where Maria is currently.
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