Not wanting to make anyone wrong in this forum, but the headline of 140 million packets is incorrect.
The FEMA rfi quoted 14m for 10 days. In govt. speak 14m is 14 thousand, not 14 million.
So they are looking for 140 thousand meals.
It's not unheard of for FEMA to plan on 14 thousand meals per day. They are planning on two meals per day. That's provisons for 7 thousand refugees.
For background, the St. Louis area comprising 16 counties in two states has about 2.8 million people.
The New Madrid area is about 166 miles from St. Louis and 120 miles from Memphis with no major population centers in between.
I'd only ad that I live in the New Madrid fault zone...& not if, but when it hits, it's going to be a shit storm here...period.
There may not be any major population centers between St. Louis & Memphis but my county alone has a service area of roughly 200,000 people. That's folks who come in from surrounding counties to my town of about 16,000 people to go the local walmart, etc. So, yeah...the population centers are going to have it bad, but so what? Everyone else will too. I can practically spit on the fault zone from my house, if the damned thing breaks loose I hope I'm dead first.
We just ran a state wide em comms exercise with Modot, the National Guard, state law enforcement, local law enforcement agencies, etc. Basically everyone who needs to give a damn about this kind of thing was there. Since my HAM club & SAR team have a lot of overlapping members, there are a lot of us who are interested in preparing for
whatever....we had occasion to talk to the Modot guys & ask them what their plans were concerning this very thing.
The guy we talked to was from Springfield & was laying out what modot would be doing as far as checking out bridges, overpasses, highways etc. Their plan is to leave Springfield & drive in their designated directions checking everything as they go. Keep in mind that after an earthquake there are going to be aftershocks...after every aftershock whatever has been checked has to be re-checked. That means turning around & going back to Springfield & starting over again
after every aftershock. They estimated roughly two weeks to be able to check everything between Springfield & Mountain Grove, & that's 60(ish) miles east of Springfield.
We're completely unprepared for this event here. Everything will be flattened & there will be a flood of refugees that will make Katrina look like
amateur hour (heh,nevermind).
