The weeklong meeting in Santiago includes a full-scale emergency reaction to a simulated 9.0 earthquake hit with an epicentre in Santiago.
Any post-mortem, then, seems destined to scrutinize the city's decision not to declare a snow emergency, the transit agency's delay in invoking a full-scale emergency plan, and the seemingly late and limited bid for outside help.
Because of the Christmas holiday, officials did not upgrade the alert to Plan 4, a full-scale emergency response, until Sunday, 18 hours after a blizzard warning had been issued.
Critics have said that the Bloomberg administration's choice not to declare a snow emergency or to ask sooner for private-sector help, as well as the city transit agency's delay in invoking a full-scale emergency plan, meant that thousands of cars, trucks and buses remained mired in snow-clogged streets.
Even given the speed of tragedy, the stormy sea and the length of time it took rescuers to arrive (a full-scale emergency was only declared half an hour after the sinking), survival experts were astonished at the high death toll.
Neath Port Talbot Hospital does not have a full scale accident and emergency (A&E) unit, but was able to handle medical emergencies, such as blood clotting or infections, until the changes.
And a full scale orchestra, obvs.
(a) Full scale transient curves.
Russia responded with a full scale invasion.
Eventually, the poem just morphed into a full scale show.
