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AT FUTURE PUNDIT, living like a refugee. Plus this: ?The local government web sites lag for many h?

By Glenn Reynolds

AT FUTURE PUNDIT, living like a refugee. Plus this: “The local government web sites lag for many hours. They should have a map page well advertised which instantly shows evacuation map changes. That map page should have notes on which neighborhoods can only be entered on foot and which you can drive into. Also spoken statements about evacuation areas should not say a single street name by itself. Yet I heard such statements yesterday. Neighbors were coming by asking “does the new evacuation order apply to us?” I couldn’t figure it out either. The Public Information Officers should have canned formats in which they release information that are structured so that they communicate in intelligible ways. Some can’t ad lib worth squat. The ambiguity wasn’t cleared until when police cruised by saying ‘you are in imminent danger’ and other words to that effect.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).