(5 January 2013, 22:06)ErikEst Wrote: (5 January 2013, 17:44)bigpaul Wrote: (5 January 2013, 17:35)Mortblanc Wrote: The people simply shut down and refused to do anything, or any thinking, for themselves.
this is just the sort of thing i mean, they cant do anything for themselves they expect "the govt will save us"!!
yes, but that is the local authorities for! they must have emergency plans for several situations.
well may be not for the killer asteroid hit, but for snowy winter certainly!
i mean every local council has a list of disabled and elderly people living alone in their constituency. so how hard it is to send someone to check on them?
do you guys have some kind of volunteer paramilitary organizations in the uk?
and i don't mean volunteer fire brigades and water rescuers.
because we have, they called in translation the defense union and they are most helpful in case of disasters. they usually report to the army chief. it is something like US national guards, but not exactly the same. union members allowed to have automatic weapon at home and there are very strict behavior rules for them existing. but in case of natural disasters they act locally with cooperation with the local authorities.
usually they help in search of missing persons and extinguishing forest fires, but also helping with the major unrest. they usually train in their free time, at weekends without the paying, but the government will pay them for the disaster days during the weekdays. and the employers have no right to fire the defense union members for not attending during the disasters. there are lot of respectable and well known people in the defense union including the womens and the childrens organization.
if it is just one winter flick anomaly, it'll be lot of cold damage to the agriculture and the insurance companies, but in general it will be just fine!
one more experience richer.
We dont have a unit like that, unless we include the Territorial Army,.. which I guess is simular, but do not, get called out for these kind of events, ever as I am aware
Yes, you are right all local authorities have emergency planning for local emergencies, but each council is responsible for their own plans, there is no national blueprint, so the plans vary greatly in how good or bad they are,... in a very general rule, we might find that the cites are better able to help people than the rural areas,...it all comes down to money, and councils are very short of funds.
We used to be very good at pulling together in this country, sadly those days are long gone,.. now we have people dieing through lack of attention, because the country has stripped everything away from so many folk,... it takes money for old people to look after themselves,.. many simply dont have it,...and the days of the friendly helpfull neighbore [in many places] has disapeared
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