Listen to Dr. IrwinRedlener, President of thechildren's healthFund, which hefounded with thesinger-songwriterPaulSimonto bring health services to poor andhomelesschildren.
"The health care system is at least crippled, if not completely out of commission, " says IrwinRedlener, of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Keep extra blankets on hand and consider investing in a generator that will power essentials, says IrwinRedlener, founder and director of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness.
"We had really significant problems in leadership coordination, " said IrwinRedlener, the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University and the co-chairman of the NYS Ready Commission, which is investigating the response to the storm.