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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 11:12 pm
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the reaction was udder shock, and the TSA personnel wisely kept there mouths shut as they new they wouldnt stand a chance if they insighted a riot as there were only about 10 of them and there where about 200+ rescue personel staged there. IE FF/EMS personnels grasp of reality based physics and chemistry can hazardous to your heath (difibulators and cardiac drugs), and a cop with a gun can be just as bad. The FEMA POD administrator stepped in to seperate TSA from everyone else before a Mass Casuality Incident insuded.


They where wanting to limit it so that everyone got what they needed in there opinion, but the gomers didnt realize that this pod (nothing more then a large cargoship shipping container) has like 3000 cases of water in this one container(along with a 1000 boxes of baby wipes, 5000+ MREs, and other supplies) and that there where 3 others on the other building from this one was but the TSA personnel didnt bother to look(or even read FEMA Disaster guidelines) and wanted to assume a power role when they didnt have the authorization to do so. The crews where wanting this much water because FEMA guidelines state that crews need to be selfsufficent for 72 hours without resupply and a 3 man team needing 2 gallons a day of water min(heavy work in a high humidity enviroment) and 5 cases(30 .5 L bottles) is about right for the crew. they ended up loading 10 cases of water and extra MREs to hand out to people they met in the disaster zone. While they where out on there mission they needed every drop of water(even used all of the IV fluids onboard as well) and could have used a few more cases to make a better buffer so yet again TSA has no clue as to what its doing, othere then to create even more potential problems.
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