But after standing in a passport line for forty minutes, we were purged out into the overwhelmed baggage-claim area, where Carousel No. 11 had died.
Naples, N.Y., and Marston, Md. Twice this year, flies have materialized in awesome numbers and overwhelmed small farming areas.
But in Moldova, social workers are seriously overwhelmed – in some areas, one social worker is responsible for a community of some 6,000 people.
However, our respondents also made it clear that the existing mechanisms for healing may fall short or be overwhelmed, particularly in postconflict areas.
We saw how overwhelmed emergency rooms in our area were during a blackout -- but do all residents truly know the area facilities that can and cannot address their needs during a true, community-wide emergency?
The city has installed a costly but discerning gunfire-detection network, called ShotSpotter, with receptors in high-crime areas; that night, ShotSpotter was so overwhelmed that it was operating on a lag of around five hours.
"I think the people who have turned it into a desirable area have either been forced out or overwhelmed," he said.
"I'm overwhelmed," said Ms. Donovan, who moved to the Boston area several years ago after working with New Visions for Public Schools, a nonprofit group that helps train teachers in New York City.
"When you get into the area of tense, grammar, you feel pretty overwhelmed," he said, "so when someone says, as an editor, "This isn't making sense," it takes you five days to understand why".
This signifies particular challenges in highly mobile populations living in areas with less reliable communication infrastructure and overwhelmed health care systems.
