Culture Of Emergency Preparedness

How is YOUR Disaster Preparedness DNA today?

Every morning I do my regular routine of checking the news to see what has occurred since I went to bed. Today is full of news on the California wildfires that so far has forces 10,000+ people from their homes and killed at least 1 person, injuring many others. I wonder how many of those that are being evacuated have a disaster plan or an emergency preparedness kit.

After checking out the general news, I was just reading a 10 page report that is very comprehensive concerning disaster preparedness. The article by Adrian Morgan entitled Exclusive: ‘Al Qaeda Driven by Undiminished Intent to Attack Homeland’ is an eye opener for many and should be sobering for everyone

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Out of the 10 pages this one sentence gave chills down my spine.

The culture of preparedness is something that must be embedded into the DNA of all levels of government and ultimately the American people."

Adrian Morgan, The Family Security Foundation, Inc. October 22, 2007 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/terrorism.php?id=1385066

Reading about the wildfires, evacuations and this report made me wonder what will it take for people to enter into a ‘culture of preparedness’ really to the depths of our being. We keep thinking we are so powerful that we can just wave our magic wand and everything will be nice and rosy for us. This is dangerous wishful thinking. We are in need of a major reality check. We are not living in the utopia of bygone eras. There are those out there that want to kill us. There are serious weather conditions that are causing chaos and destruction on every coast and in-land speck of dirt of every continent.

We need to enter into a culture of emergency preparedness on every land and continent. We are more interested in researching what type of cell phone we have with what fun accessories it has then gathering the disaster preparedness information necessary determine the spending the spending budget on emergency preparedness necessities that can keep us alive so we can worry later about the cell phone accessories.

Less than 4% of all adults have an emergency preparedness plan and even fewer review their emergency preparedness checklist even annually. Everyone needs at least their own personal low cost emergency survival kits for their car, work / school and home. Schools are so worried about no child left behind program but I wonder how many have taught disaster preparedness so in an emergency no child is left behind either.

Besides checking out cholesterol levels every so often, I think we had better develop a DNA test that checks our emergency preparedness level as well. What an eye opener that would be for the world!

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Be Safe

Terrie

www.trainforahurricane.com