Let me explain. All of questions are great, it's that to explain some will
require books, those are hard and there are no simple answers. Others are
easier to put into context.
Let's take state of preparation. I've been through a handful of serious
hurricanes, but everyone I know thought this would be like those before.
Unfortunately the magnitude of devestation compared other storms was
nothing close to the collective known experience, so few prepared
sufficiently, across the board government, utilities, private sector,
citizens.
So the go!den question, knowing what we know now, will for the next one
will we be better prepared. That's a more complicated yes and no. For the
entities that can afford it, sure. Those that can not afford it, will not.