>>>The key is to surviving any category of hurricane is to stay close to a CNNreporter. While people die and are stranded in flooded areas, for some reason they are immune, somehow manage to find a building that isn't flattened and can come and go as they please. What's up with that?
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>>Perhaps part of the explanation - but by no means the complete explanation - is that they are willing to assume some risks?
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>Kind of ironic that they are willing to assume risk that rescue agencies aren't. CNN is able to have people on the ground before during and after a disaster. Oh and are able to determine drivable streets to get SUV's into places that the military can't get troop carriers and hummers into. One strange scence was a Coast Guard crew was trying to rescure a stranded person from a rooftop via helicopter. They couldn't, but yelled over to a BBC crew in a 12 foot aluminum boat to ferry the person out.

After reading some of the things from that thread I came to the following conclusion. Next time something that big happens they should forget about sending the army and let CNN organize the rescue ;-)