and interestingly, all the people who said the guy who runs the nursing home in Harvey with people floating around should be taken out back, are all quiet.
I've actually been quite busy today and still on the office (I didn't even read about the story yet, just heard a few different versions of it on the radio in the car while driving to a few different meetings, which ironically enough, one was with OEM which is the central part of the city government arm here in NYC that takes control of ALL services and tells everybody what to do, where to go, etc).
Once again, I don't know the details but being that I was part of a similar disaster five years ago and actually operating a LTC facilty, I could actually see certain scenarios where the operator (or owner) has ZERO fault.
For example (and this is not a far fetch possibility at all)-
Maybe they had power up until the previous night and it was a relatively cool night. They hydrated the residents, opened windows (which BTW due we physically cant open windows more than 6-12"), made extra rounds, monitored often, and had a plan to either get the power back up in the morning or evacuate then. Maybe there was physically no way to evacuate them since millions of people were evacuating, roads were clogged, shelters were full, hotels were overbooked and they were TOLD by their respective government agencies to shelter-in-place? Moving 100+ elderly sick people is not the same as going on a camp trip where you could order 2 or 3 buses, pick up and go. They would need dozens of ambulettes/ambulances to transport, they would have to take all supplies, medications, equipment, and food with them (very little chance any place they go would have any of that, considering the mass evacuations of the general public and other facilities), medical charts also have to go, you need to make sure that you supply enough staff (and on average it takes 1 employees to care for 1 patient, which includes just aides and nurses) 24/7 around the clock, and more. If you really want to know more details and get to know what it takes, I might have a position for you (no kidding) but my point is that you have absolutely no clue.
So as I said previously, I don't know 1)the facilities that we are discussing (location, demographics of residents, etc. which all make a huge difference) 2)how things are in regards to government and done in other states, but if the storm was anything like Sandy and things are run similar to how they are run here in NY (which BTW I believe that the NYC OEM is way ahead of similar agencies in other cities so I could just imagine how much more unorganized and chaotic it is over there), I could def see it being made for what its not by people who have no clue.