csl,
it may well be when talking about groups in excess of say 100, that such a try it incrementally approach, bottom up, and its several iterations and so on, resuluts in two costs: 1) time, 2) things like failure and death.
So, it seems that when a rath of god storm hits something like 7 states, your idea argues we should talk to mayors, one at a time. And if that doesn't work (a weak later, the corpses piling up) ... we should then go work with county commissioners (and a week later, with more corpses piling up) maybe get all liberal and talk to governors (of course now we have plague and disease running wild) and then we gat all stupid and socialist and talk to the Federal Government.
I'm just thinking considered folk should consider ahead of time Federal mandate, and consider FEMA to be part of that mandate.
We have a choice, you and Romney (the start from the mayors and muddle your way up if you can fight your way past the morgue) and me, one of recognizing through federal apparatus (NWS and NOAA) that a federal response is warranted (as oppose to just waiting for the pile of bodies to get high enough where even a conservative is finding the air quality to deteriorate).
And once again, I compliment myself, I did not say fuck even once in that post.