The help incident was just stupidity on the part of the fire chief. The other 1st responders agreed that it was stupid

In the aftermath of Katrina, people were stuck in floodwaters. People with boats (pre-Cajun Navy) showed and worked for a couple of days. Then the press found out and the next day for reasons of "safety, they were turned away.

When you are stuck for days in a disaster zone you want out. You really do not care if they are official.

Again see my tag line.

NHC is now tracking this storm as Invest 92-L, but it may become Milton. It is now very likely to affect soggy old Florida by the middle of next week.

It's one thing to try to keep traffic in the affected areas down so the pros can work, but EMAs were telling people to stay away before they had pros ready to go themselves. One of the local non-profits I work with sent three truckloads of supplies on Saturday, and they didn't see any state or Federal EMAs until Monday.

In some cases, this is well-meaning people getting in the way of teams who are trained to handle it or people in power creating obstacles for the same teams.  They should be focused on rescue and aid, but they have to deal with people who may be doing more harm than good on either side of the power spectrum. 

In my state, for example, we have an organization which is essentially the state equivalent of FEMA on the ground coordinating rescues and aid, but a political executive on the other side of the state with zero understanding of the situation is overruling established decisions made by people trained to make those choices and barking orders that are detrimental to the efforts if followed and could lose people their livelihood if not followed.  Too many people want to play hero when they really should just get out of the way. 

Is it being well-handled?  I don't know.  I'm not there and I can't see for myself what is happening in real time and there is a lot of nuance and moving parts at play that skew perspective.  I'm sure there are plenty of things that could be handled better. 

Is the reporting shoddy and disjointed?  Absofuckinglutely, and it's frustrating as hell. 

Some of what I've been reading is making me very pissed off, like helicopter pilots being threatened with arrest for helping with rescues and state and federal EMA's telling people not to bring aid to the flood zones all while DHS is announcing they have no more money for hurricane relief. Raptor is right, too many shades of Katrina here.

I assumed once I saw aerial photos of the ILA president's home in NJ, it was clear someone turned up the heat on him. So a short tern kick the can down the road until after November does not surprise me.

This disaster response reminds me of Katrina. Although minus the MSM broadcasting pictures to embarrass the PTB.

See my tag line below.

Interesting posts on FB from mountain mule packers of S Carolina.  Found the posts on citizens free press.  I dont FB.

I saw this and am justing thinking out loud.

You can buy this to connect your earpro to your handheld two way. For around $48.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mN0v54G

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This gives you the ability to hear while firing a gun, increase the volume and clarity of surrounded sound - hear better than with your bare ears, and communicate via two way handheld radio - while shooting with other team members.

Or you can buy this for $14 and a rx/tx Bluetooth adapter for your two way handheld radio for $5(?):

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqtOr60

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This "theoretically" replaces the above $50 unit. It transmits between the ear pro and your two way radios using BT. But the description does not specifically say that.

So I am wondering if others have an opinion?

I have not researched this to see if others are using it the same way. And/or if it performs as well as the $50 wired unit. I would assume the wired unit is much more durable and dependable.

But thought it a worthy conversation. Especially from those that might have personal experience or knowledge of decent reviews of either. These are not the cheapest or best sellers I have posted. But both units routinely get very good reviews on AliExpress. From a number of different sellers. Which does not prove anything. But usually when a product sucks you can see it in reviews if it's being sold by multiple sellers that it sucks in at least some of the sellers reviews. It's hard to find a bad product, sold my multiple users, with good reviews on each sellers sales page. Does that make sense?

Just putting this out there because well it deal with this.

I emailed a client today at work telling them there order we be delayed about a month. There immediate reply was "WoW a month it is because of the port strike".

I replied with what it really was " no anything bigger than this size is special and is a longer lead time. your order was for bigger than stock size" .