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PERFECT RECIPES FOR HAVING PEOPLE OVER/ PAM ANDERSON From soups to nutty desserts, former Cook's Illustrated editor Anderson provides all you need, with the exception of the actual food, to feed a multitude without requiring a miracle. All the book's 200 party-ready recipes have a minimum of hard-to-find ingredients and are easy to execute. The dishes are crowd pleasers too: luxe macaroni and cheese, coconut shrimp and several variations on a moist but still crispy-skinned roast chicken (her secret is to salt the bird several hours before cooking...
...train and time yourself and figure out what you need to do to achieve it," she says. As the president of Innovative Emergency Management, Inc., in Baton Rouge, La., Beriwal knows about training for marathon-size catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina. Her company played a role in the Hurricane Pam simulation, which involved almost 300 officials getting ready for a major-category storm hitting New Orleans. But after witnessing the devastation left by Katrina and the blundered response from relief officials, Beriwal wonders if the training needs to be rethought. "The system failed," she told TIME when asked...
...worth noting that I.E.M.'s Pam preparedness plan, which FEMA contracted for almost $1 million, helped 80 percent of the population of the New Orleans area evacuate before Katrina made landfall on August 29th-one of the highest rates ever for a hurricane. But more than 100,000 people didn?t escape the city boundaries-mostly citizens without cars. That?s because there weren?t enough buses available in time, a problem for which disaster preparedness planners hadn?t apparently accounted...
...Beriwal says, in her defense, that the Pam Plan had never been fully implemented-that it was just the first version and that they had not yet addressed critical areas of response such as security and communication. Critics say that even the parts of the Pam Plan that were used to didn?t hold up to the chaos after the storm. For Beriwal the marathoner, time...
...this had been foreshadowed with disconcerting accuracy last summer. Hundreds of regional and federal officials met in Baton Rouge, La., for an elaborate simulation exercise. The fictional "Hurricane Pam" left the city under 10 ft. of water and looked a lot like Katrina. The report on the simulation, obtained by TIME last week, warns that transportation would be a major problem...