Emergency airports

After hurricanes and earthquakes, it appears that often the airports
become operable before highways and railroads for emergency supplies.

It seems to me that a reasonable (required?) part of ANY community
planning for emergencies in areas subject to these kinds of disasters
should be thoughtful location of a small airport with 1 runway and
plenty of area for parking while unloading.

Perhaps "thoughtful" combined with political action is an oxymoron,
however.

Not for Katrina, the FAA had to truck in equipment before opening some
of the airports. The relief types have said that nothing beats the
bandwidth of 18 wheelers which go directly where needed such as the
Superdome where despite what was reported in the media FEMA delivered
food and water Monday afternoon.

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"Paul kgyy" wrote in message
ups.com...
After hurricanes and earthquakes, it appears that often the airports
become operable before highways and railroads for emergency supplies.

It seems to me that a reasonable (required?) part of ANY community
planning for emergencies in areas subject to these kinds of disasters
should be thoughtful location of a small airport with 1 runway and
plenty of area for parking while unloading.

Perhaps "thoughtful" combined with political action is an oxymoron,
however.

Except for when the 18 wheelers go to Ft Lauderdale and run out of fuel. No
electricity means no working gas pumps.


"sfb" wrote in message news:P67af.8809$N73.5346@trnddc04...
Not for Katrina, the FAA had to truck in equipment before opening some
of the airports. The relief types have said that nothing beats the
bandwidth of 18 wheelers which go directly where needed such as the
Superdome where despite what was reported in the media FEMA delivered
food and water Monday afternoon.

can be a
"Paul kgyy" wrote in message
ups.com...
After hurricanes and earthquakes, it appears that often the airports
become operable before highways and railroads for emergency supplies.

It seems to me that a reasonable (required?) part of ANY community
planning for emergencies in areas subject to these kinds of disasters
should be thoughtful location of a small airport with 1 runway and
plenty of area for parking while unloading.

Perhaps "thoughtful" combined with political action is an oxymoron,
however.

If mankind lets a failure stop progress, the wheel would yet to be
invented.

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:li7af.2592$Ar5.367@trndny01...
Except for when the 18 wheelers go to Ft Lauderdale and run out of
fuel. No
electricity means no working gas pumps.


"sfb" wrote in message
news:P67af.8809$N73.5346@trnddc04...
Not for Katrina, the FAA had to truck in equipment before opening
some
of the airports. The relief types have said that nothing beats the
bandwidth of 18 wheelers which go directly where needed such as the
Superdome where despite what was reported in the media FEMA delivered
food and water Monday afternoon.

can be a
"Paul kgyy" wrote in message
ups.com...
After hurricanes and earthquakes, it appears that often the
airports
become operable before highways and railroads for emergency
supplies.

It seems to me that a reasonable (required?) part of ANY community
planning for emergencies in areas subject to these kinds of
disasters
should be thoughtful location of a small airport with 1 runway and
plenty of area for parking while unloading.

Perhaps "thoughtful" combined with political action is an oxymoron,
however.

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Paul kgyy wrote:
After hurricanes and earthquakes, it appears that often the airports
become operable before highways and railroads for emergency supplies.

It seems to me that a reasonable (required?) part of ANY community
planning for emergencies in areas subject to these kinds of disasters
should be thoughtful location of a small airport with 1 runway and
plenty of area for parking while unloading.

Perhaps "thoughtful" combined with political action is an oxymoron,
however.

On a side note to this, I really like what Paul Freeman has
been doing in charting/finding all the old abandoned/unused airfields
and showing them on his site. He has the mindset that outside the
history of the field in question, if he is ever in a bind and needs to
land and can't make it to the closest active field, he could put down
at one that has been abandoned or not used anymore, and consider it no
small sacrifice. Granted, there would be investigations and such with
it, but hey, he could land, and walk away with his life, which is good.

His site is at http://www.airfields-freeman.com . It's a pretty
good read, and he keeps it rather updated. Perhaps those communities in
the planning stages that happen to be in/around an old airfield may
take this into consideration.

BL.
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