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In talking with a Washington County engineer (OR), he commented on procuring drones, by discussing this with management, to facilitate dam, spillway, and bridge inspections immediately after an earthquake (in Pacific Northwest). The problem was that it is near impossible to view important structural features without getting underneath, around, and close.

He then told me an interesting story of a recent "earthquake" drill that was conducted in concert with the states of Washington, Oregon, including counties and cities. Since part of the drill was to realistically test the communications & emergency response capacities - including emotions - some genius came up with a plan.

All of the engineers, inspectors, and other county participants were given a sealed envelope before the precise time of the planned "incident (earthquake)". ON the envelope was a specific location to go to prior to the event. He was beginning to think that his was a good idea; that he would learn quite a bit on what he would do, how the system reacts, the emotions, etc. When the "exercise test" time came & was at the specific deployed location - he then opened his sealed envelope... It said "your dead".

I guess the genius of this plan wanted to include this in a realistic simulation. But the engineer was mad. He learned nothing and wasn't able to participate in any communications, system response reactions, etc. All he could think about was "what idiot came up with this..."