Suggestion Box for Irma

[Unregistered]

So what were some of the good and bad points that we can all learn from during this ordeal? Suggestions for next time?

[Unregistered]

Food, water, and a generator at the shelter would be nice.

[Unregistered]

Food, water, and a generator at the shelter would be nice.

For unknown administrative reasons, this was the most confusing storm ever. There has never been this much confusion at the public safety level. During past storms, we did not have "confusion reigning," but we did this time. It felt like no one was in charge because no one was making any informed decisions from any of the public safety agency heads. The left hand did not know what the right hand was doing (dead serious on that). The creation of the EOC was supposed to cure that administrative nightmare by coordinating all that stuff, like it used to do in past years. This year was the worst ever (when compared to past storms).

As one example (of many):
1. A list of shelters was disseminated to the public online, on TV and on the radio.
2. The order was eventually given for mandatory evacuation.
3. Citizens evacuated their homes and started showing up to the shelters, some of which were not open (nobody was there).
4. The sheep (citizens) did what they were told, but they were given bad information, which created chaos (on top of the storm).

From a public safety perspective, this was the worst administrative storm ever because nobody was in charge (although on paper people are or were in charge). In reality, no one was making leadership decisions countywide. It was administrative chaos.

[Unregistered]

From a public safety perspective, this was the worst administrative storm ever because nobody was in charge (although on paper people are or were in charge). In reality, no one was making leadership decisions countywide. It was administrative chaos. During past storms, we did not have "confusion reigning," but we did this time. The left hand did not know what the right hand was doing (dead serious on that). The creation of the EOC was supposed to cure that administrative nightmare by coordinating all that stuff, like it used to do in past years.

To the winds with reality!!!! The IMPORTANT thing is that the SSO Facebook pages looks good!!!!

https://www.facebook.com/SarasotaCou...543380/?type=3

Kudos to the personal effort.

[Unregistered]

Heard there was a complete failure in one of the shelters with special needs

[Unregistered]

Heard there was a complete failure in one of the shelters with special needs

Don't issue a mandatory evacuation order, ordering citizens to go to designated shelters, when the shelters are closed and locked (and volunteers/employees are not on-scene). The left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing. It was out-of-control. Worst ever. Why was there no command-and-control this year? Why was this year different?