The App That Reports You Missing
During Hurricane Harvey in 2017, ordinary people took their own fishing boats into the floodwater and pulled thousands of their neighbors off roofs. Some of them didn’t come back. Here’s the detail that stuck with me: when a volunteer like that heads out, nobody writes down that they went. There’s no dispatcher, no roster, no log. If they stop answering their phone, nothing notices. Eventually, someone realizes they haven’t heard from them in a while. ...