Reply #28: Sadly that's bound to happen, in those conditions. [View All]

[rman]

No water, no power, no plumbing.
No water, no food other then what people managed to bring with them.

The situation is stressful, and no doubt there are many elderly there.

There wouldn't have to be that many people there, in those conditions - if much more federal resources would have been dedicated to disaster management and -relief. But that would have been tax money spent on the common good, which would be a waste according to the RW.
Not cutting the NO disaster readiness budget by $70 million would have been a start, not sending the NO NG over to fight in a war on foreign soil also would have helped.