Do you think NEMO’s hurricane preparedness plans were adequate?
Tonight we ask: Do you think that NEMO’s hurricane preparedness plans were adequate? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
NEMO preparedness plans are adequate for the pre-arrival of a hurricane; however, their plans are not adequate for the restoration to normalcy after the hurricane.
Belize needs to have a Disaster Fund to be able to address human and natural disasters.
Adequate? Possibly.
Thanks to Love Fm and Channel 5’s coverage, along with the internet and the many weather sites, then YES!
I was blessed – but what about villagers and South-Siders who did not keep tuned in? Maybe NEMO/CEMO can in future get a pick up with an amplifier and drive through the streets warning of an approaching storm.
But – Shelters were opened early, tidy up work co-ordinated rapidly, death count low…..but some sort of real mandatory evacuation of low lying areas need to be implemented in future, especially if the house is obviously likely to collapse during strong winds.
i don’t know why these individuals are acting as if they are the ones who implemented NEMO. I personally don’t think there is enough brain power in this present government to come up with such a structure. they simply cannot even get their day to day livelihood in order.
Belize city obviously posed a problem for NEMO. They waited until last minute to say that it was hitting directly in that area. Why? Is it because they don’t want to find the money to evacuate people. Mandatory evacuation would have called for the government going into their pockets. They have once again proven that they don’t care about human resources. Dean Barrow and Lois Young has stolen enough of BTL’s money to evacuate people with!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEMO preparedness plans are adequate for the pre-arrival of a hurricane; however, their plans are not adequate for the restoration to normalcy after the hurricane.
Belize needs to have a Disaster Fund to be able to address human and natural disasters.
I do not feel like the NEMO organization nationwide took the approaching storm seriously. First of all you never know the outcome of these storms. I work for a resort on an island, and I never got the reinforcement for mandatory evacuation from NEMO. In my opinion they were taking things very lightly. Wake up NEMO members! A lot of Belizeans could have been injured or killed if this storm had become a cat 2 or 3 last minute.