Where are all the linemen coming from that are heading to Florida?
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To add to everyone’s great answers, it’s not as though they get in their trucks and go. It’s incredibly organized. I worked in disaster relief evaluating all the responders and making calls to rotate or pull them before they hit the wall. As a rule, with maybe with one or two exceptions, volunteers who just showed up were directed to some non-profit on the distant edge of the disaster where they got to sort blankets by what they’re made of. The exceptions were those who had extended experience in high-stress crises situations. Maybe not in said disaster, but close enough.
Those working in the heart of the disaster have pretty much been invited and are all part of a much broader network that is organizing everything. It might look like chaos on the ground to most people, but it’s not. And the reason it’s not chaos is that everyone that’s supposed to be there knows exactly how to do their job and every person above them trusts that they know how to do their job. It’s not a time for egos to get in the way.
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