“The issue we had with Katrina was that it was a multi-state disaster. The phone lines everywhere were jammed. There was no system set up for sharing all that information.”
“It made responding and rescue missions more difficult. It really slowed some of the response efforts. Just to be on the safe side, multiple search and rescue teams (ended up going out) with the same address.”
“The federal government needs to look into a national tracking system (for evacuees and disaster victims) of some kind. It makes no sense that we can't track them.”
