john smith wrote:
Gary Drescher wrote:

You're weaving an astounding fantasy here. There were people atop
houses throughout the flooded city, painting SOS messages on rooftops
and waving large white sheets that were plainly visible, but to no
avail, because the rescuers were not there. Moreover, 20,000 people
had followed the authorities' instructions to take shelter in a
stadium (which they were then forbidden to leave because of the rising
flood waters) where they found themselves trapped for days without
food, water, or lights, with temperatures in the upper 90s, immersed
in raw sewage and surrounded by the decaying corpses of people who had
already died of dehydration. And you want them to *light fires* to
call attention to themselves?


No. This thread has digressed from the failure of individuals and
governments to make the right decisions in the face of impending
disaster to a treatise on survival skills. It has gotten way off topic.

And failure of individuals and governments was ever ON TOPIC for r.a...
groups? :-)

Matt