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"Jim Wilkins" wrote:

What does the National Guard do when they are called out? I haven't
seen them at work because the local administration has always been
adequate. The dump trucks and bucket loaders needed to clear snow can
handle most other infrastructure damage too.

jsw
Depends largely on the disaster. For somethings like tornadoes they are
mainly used as cops to patrol areas with some civil engineering type
things (generators, clean waters, etc) tossed in. For floods the same
plus often help with defense issues such as filling and moving around
sandbags.
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