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Cat 5 Milton One Of The Strongest Hurricanes On Record
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I occasionally lurk on /r/collapse when big weather events crop up. (It's way too racist for me under other circumstances.) I just read a comment that Florida has only 27 hospitals listed as "level 1 trauma centers", the facilities most needed in these kinds of natural disasters. And guess where Tampa's only one is?
On an island barely above sea level, in Tampa Bay. There are two bridges onto that island, neither of them with any sort of wind barriers. There's an airport and some marina facilities but good luck making use of those in a hurricane.
If this were a movie I'd be laughing at the black comedy of it all.
Feels like the "we should put our emergency response center right under the Twin Towers" level of civic planning.
Jesus I'm honestly wondering how many staff are even going to come to work? Like for real any nurse or doctor coming in knows they aren't going to get relief once that storm hits and likely will have to go well beyond 24hrs+ providing continual care (god help those working in the ICU or trauma bays...), at the same time if they leave they will get charged with patient abandonment possibly compromising their licenses.
If the nurses on staff are anything like the ones in my family, they'll probably plan to show up before the rough weather really hits and ride out the storm at the hospital to do what they can to help.