it's more or less what I'd do if I had one chainsaw per fifteen people to remove fallen trees
Nah, it's still wrong. If I had 15 people and one chain saw, I'm cutting that tree into the largest manageable parts, having fourteen people drag (might as well put that excess manpower to work) those tree parts toward the pile, and then I'm off to find more trees to cut into manageable chunks while they do that hauling. Then, while they haul the other tress, I'm cutting the tree parts at the pile into smaller pieces. While I'm doing that, they can go dig ditches or something, too. People shouldn't be standing around.
There is always a better plan. And even if you still want to do that "manageable first cut" crap, you don't need 15 people. 3-4 would be more than enough for the distance of travel and it's not like carrying a log is particularly hard work.
It's not as efficient use as you've put forward, but it's still better than what they're currently doing while maintaining a level of cushy-ness that shouldn't be tolerated for what is essentially rescue/recovery work.
Just an example off the top of my head, not necessarily the most efficient way. At least my way doesn't have people standing around, and everyone's bouncing around from problem to problem.
Looking again, I think this was actually staged. I went back to look for just how lightly hit this neighborhood was, cause one of my assumptions was that they've assigned these border agents to the least critical work - they're not exactly the most useful volunteers. I still think that's the case, but I also noticed two chainsaws just sitting on the ground there. If those are actually being used in reality, you're getting more like 5:1 than 15:1, which is a lot more realistic. I don't think you could actually find any more work to do on that street.
Nah, it's still wrong. If I had 15 people and one chain saw, I'm cutting that tree into the largest manageable parts, having fourteen people drag (might as well put that excess manpower to work) those tree parts toward the pile, and then I'm off to find more trees to cut into manageable chunks while they do that hauling. Then, while they haul the other tress, I'm cutting the tree parts at the pile into smaller pieces. While I'm doing that, they can go dig ditches or something, too. People shouldn't be standing around.
There is always a better plan. And even if you still want to do that "manageable first cut" crap, you don't need 15 people. 3-4 would be more than enough for the distance of travel and it's not like carrying a log is particularly hard work.
It's not as efficient use as you've put forward, but it's still better than what they're currently doing while maintaining a level of cushy-ness that shouldn't be tolerated for what is essentially rescue/recovery work.
Just an example off the top of my head, not necessarily the most efficient way. At least my way doesn't have people standing around, and everyone's bouncing around from problem to problem.
Looking again, I think this was actually staged. I went back to look for just how lightly hit this neighborhood was, cause one of my assumptions was that they've assigned these border agents to the least critical work - they're not exactly the most useful volunteers. I still think that's the case, but I also noticed two chainsaws just sitting on the ground there. If those are actually being used in reality, you're getting more like 5:1 than 15:1, which is a lot more realistic. I don't think you could actually find any more work to do on that street.