After the earthquake that destroyed San Fran the first train load of half a million food packs arrived from Southern Cal that evening. The army was at work that afternoon restoring order and preventing looting and in one week there were 250,000 homeless people living in army tents. They had no warning of the disaster, no airplanes, no communications. Quite a comparison to the modern day technologies. I'll bet the people that were living in the tents weren't bitching and complaining about their living conditions either.