He found underequipped, understaffed hospitals overflowing with people wounded in air strikes and fighting, schools closed to make way for internal refugees, and a countrywide lack of generators, cars and water pumps.
Wormuth, an emergency-room physician, had been idled by a lack of serviceable generators at Oschner Clinic.
The screen stretched from the town of Randwijk, 10 mile west of Arnhem, along the south bank of the river to Huissen, south of Arnhem, but strong winds and a lack of appropriate generators reduced its effectiveness.
And weak or poorly enforced regulations have left many nursing homes with potentially deadly problems: not enough staff, lack of backup generators and automatic sprinkler systems, and shaky plans for evacuating residents and getting them to new facilities when a disaster strikes.
Although inertia is not considered in the calculations and system dynamic behaviour is neglected for simplicity, the property of short-circuit power of a low inertia system is preserved due to the lack of sufficient synchronous generator capacity.
Any conversation in Kano has to be conducted over the noisy chug of a diesel-fuelled generator; lack of electricity means that power cuts can last for more than five hours there, in the north's biggest and most sophisticated city.
"Regardless whether you're building a renewable plant, or you want to upgrade a thermal generator, the lack of policy predictability going forward is hampering investment.
Due to lack of electricity on Liberty Island, a generator was installed to power temporary floodlights to illuminate the statue at night.
The manual option is in fact not feasible in most cases, where a lot of new annotations need to be updated, and the management of annotation files can be difficult due to the lack of a specific annotation file generator.
Lack of fuel for the emergency generators soon initiates building safety protocols designed to destroy the facility to prevent the escape of deadly diseases.
