Instead of taking all the aid to the injured and homeless,

[SoCalDem]

Why not use helicopters to ferry people to bus and transport vehicles just outside the damaged areas?

People in unaffected, but nearby areas could be paid ...say $1000US per family to "take in" and house the affected people for a short time.. The locals know the food they eat, and their language and their customs. I cannot believe that many countrymen would turn down money to do what they would probably WANT to do anyway.

It would HAVE to be cheaper, and it would remove the poor bedraggled people from the devastation...while allowing the clean up crews to get busy without the burden of trying to take care of the people too..

It would also make aid delivery easier to places where landing fields were intact, and services were already in place...

Most of the damage was strictly on the coastlines, and inland areas were totally unaffected..

Another gripe.. Why did the government not FORCE the 5star hotels that were untouched, to evacuate their guests so that their massive lobbies and facilities could have been used to help house the afflicted people??:grr:..

Tourism or not..it's a very callous thing to do when people are injured and sleeping with corpses at one end of the beach, and the mai tais & pina coladas are being served on fancy trays at the other end of the beach :grr:

[oscar111]

1. I like your creative thinking! It is what i like to do, too.. new approach

approaches.

you make sense to me. good idea.

good compassionate viewpoint too., about the fancy hotels.

[SoCalDem]

2. Thanks.. I am an "outta the box" thinker

:hi: