Disaster Prepardness Pot Pie

There are times in life when I wish I was
exaggerating. When I wish what sounds so
funny wasn't true.

Tomas is coming. Whether it will be
devastating as Nicole or worse, or no
more that a heavy rain, is not known.

It is not known not just to the average
person but to the subhuman morons in charge
of the Office of Disaster Preparedness,
Red Cross and everyone else who is hired
and paid to deal with Emergencies.

This is because those hired and paid rely
on unpaid community people.

Community people who are expected to pay
their own bus fare, pay for their own
cell calls, pay for any materials they
need out of their own pocket.

While those who are paid know absolutely
nothing about the area they are 'in charge
of', the people who know, the unpaid
volunteers are given meaningless titles
without resources and left to their
own devices.

And when the storm comes, those paid persons
are safely inside a strong walled building,
where they can 'monitor' the storm.

As Digicel cuts out with a rain, and
most people have Digicel phones,
there will be NO communication.

Further...communicate what?

Yesterday, at a meeting at the Red Cross
Not One Person employed to the Red Cross
was connected to the Internet monitoring
the storm.

Not one person had a radio or T.V. on.
Not one.

Desiring to know the position of the storm
I slipped into an office, turned on a
computer, but it had no Internet connection.

The Red Cross, responsible for people's lives,
has no clue what is going on.

And those who 'advise' government are in the
same boat. They rely on the 'Weather Channel'
which is less accurate than Grandma Rose's
bunions.

As I follow the storm on Boatus and knowing how
to track, people ring me up to ask the questions
that the 'disaster prepardness people' should
be asked. But they don't know.
I do.

They only know where the storm is when they
were told two hours ago by someone who isn't
very interested.

This gal, she could be the receptionist at
Linda's hair parlour or serving in Paul's shop.
What she knows about monitoring
storms would fit in a thimble.

The community people, those on the road,
those monitoring shelters, they have
drops of 'training' but are more interested
in the free stuff than anything else.

When their phones stop working, because they
run out of credit, or because Digicel cuts
out, they make do.

And on these people, Jamaica rides into
disaster.