It's hard to check on people when an area has been so devastated you now have to use gps coord's and old school grid maps to navigate the area to find missing survivors because all the overland nav points and references have been destroyed.
The game plan should have been to immediately collect and organize those who know the terrain, as it was before and is now (or is in the process of becoming as mudslides happen etc.), and who can network with other locals about who lived where, get up into those stomps and hollers via whatever means are available (horse, mule, flyover), and do the scouting, then report back.
It could be easily achieved if the "disaster experts" had any clue of how to NETWORK solutions based on local resources, and add to those resources as needed. Instead of imposing top-down-model airy-fairy "reports" and "management methods."
It's hard to check on people when an area has been so devastated you now have to use gps coord's and old school grid maps to navigate the area to find missing survivors because all the overland nav points and references have been destroyed.
I looked at the background and thought, holy shit, this looks wild like what I would have seen on PCT but even more so because there, you see a trail.
Well, that's where local intelligence comes in.
The game plan should have been to immediately collect and organize those who know the terrain, as it was before and is now (or is in the process of becoming as mudslides happen etc.), and who can network with other locals about who lived where, get up into those stomps and hollers via whatever means are available (horse, mule, flyover), and do the scouting, then report back.
It could be easily achieved if the "disaster experts" had any clue of how to NETWORK solutions based on local resources, and add to those resources as needed. Instead of imposing top-down-model airy-fairy "reports" and "management methods."
But this should have been done Day One.