tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post2513266678815412897..comments2024-03-27T08:40:31.785-06:00Comments on Clayton Cramer.: This Is A Bit Paranoid...Clayton Cramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-90057324603068393232012-01-03T13:15:18.474-07:002012-01-03T13:15:18.474-07:00rfb: echoing your Force Protection point, another ...rfb: echoing your Force Protection point, another detail from the Joplin tornado is relevant: 18,000 vehicles were outright destroyed.<br /><br />That fence and the badge based security system would be necessary in various scenarios where the less moral were looking for a replacement vehicle; you don't want your recovery workers to be worried about their personal vehicles or property.ThatWouldBeTellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16910231314995266781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-49257958401764551132012-01-02T20:41:43.108-07:002012-01-02T20:41:43.108-07:00"Force Protection" is a paradigm that ac..."Force Protection" is a paradigm that accompanies (or should) any emergency response for critical incident management. This sounds very much like force protection logistics.<br /><br />A six foot tall fence does not seem remotely connected to any standard for restraining prisoners. A six foot fence is to demarcate and discourage entry; it would nevery be used for serious imprisonment.BFRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09446254517738219155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-47429419422399834842012-01-02T16:38:46.271-07:002012-01-02T16:38:46.271-07:00Ah, just found some harder figures, in this articl...Ah, just found some harder figures, in <a href="http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x67377042/Payouts-stand-at-1-13-billion" rel="nofollow">this article by the city's best and most accurate reporter</a> it was stated that "approximately 4,000 [ residential dwellings ] were catastrophic losses." 7,500 total were damaged; some fraction of these (e.g. roof damage) would have required evacuation for a while.<br /><br />Another factor in terms of being able to house recovery workers: the school district lost about half its buildings including the high school. For some time the old high school was used as a significant medical facility. because we lost one of our hospitals (could have lost both and a lot more lives, they were less than a mile from each other...).ThatWouldBeTellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16910231314995266781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-82233165106118871602012-01-02T12:38:51.745-07:002012-01-02T12:38:51.745-07:00Additional less paranoid thinking:
This is very p...Additional less paranoid thinking:<br /><br />This is very possibly in response to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado" rel="nofollow">May 22nd Joplin, Missouri tornado</a>. This more than a minimum EF5 tornado damaged or destroyed more than 7,000 units of housing (that figure includes a <i>lot</i> of apartments, <a href="http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/" rel="nofollow">including mine</a> (although as the "after" photo of the complex shows I was lucky to be in one where only the top floors were outright destroyed)).<br /><br />All of a sudden we had thousands of Displaced People vying for housing along with rescue and recovery workers and to this day recovery is constrained by housing for construction workers. Generals tend to fight the last war and all that, but being able to better serve a city or region that was devastated like Joplin is legitimate.<br /><br />(One might also note that by definition concentration camps are not fancy affairs except at the parameter.)ThatWouldBeTellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16910231314995266781noreply@blogger.com