Where will FEMA be in a few months?

[sweetapogee]

4. I don't want to spoil the fun

really. But, I'm a member of a swiftwater rescue team. We were placed on standby for Texas on the 29th. It is over 1800 miles from here to there and if there are qualified rescue teams closer then that is good news for those stuck and waiting for me and my team to get everything ready and travel that distance.

By the way since we are certified (2A) Swiftwater we are required to maintain a degree of readiness. It is not wise to just go running into someplace and get in the way. What we were told was to expect 8 days in the field in primitive conditions and to be self-sufficient (food/shelter/fuel) for the duration. We are btw volunteers. My company agreed that if we were deployed I could go without a loss of wages. The amount of training required to be on a rescue team is significant and in all honesty we only go on about 4 or 5 calls per year (for water) mostly when the ice gets too thin. To have people trained and waiting around for the possibility of such an event is not done anywhere I know of in the world so I don't understand why not having this service in the US is a problem.