Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Today begins the official Hurricane Season, so it seems like the perfect day to ask the question:
What have we preppers learned from Katrina, and other major disasters of recent times, that we might incorporate into our own family's preparations for future events?
I am serious about the question. Preppers should always have their eyes and ears open, and always learning to hone their "craft," that craft being preparing to handle emergencies now and in the future.
I know that I have learned alot of things from Katrina, so I'll start it off in the next post.
Oh, one thing: I have never before asked any censure of anything that was written in a thread I have begun, because I believe in open debate and freedom of thought. But please refrain from ugly comments about New Orleanians. If you learned that you will never move your family into a home that is below sea level, then so be it. It probably just means that you've moved your family into an area ripe for a different kind of major disaster -- like an earthquake, tornado, wild fire, other kinds of flooding, or blizzards, or whatever. Or you live in a terrorist hot spot. Or whatever. Because there are very few areas of this country that don't entail one risk or another if you live there.
Anyway, please lets keep this a thread with a positive tone. I would like to see this a thread that allows us to reflect on what we have learned, with an eye to helping our selves, our families and our communities in the future.
What have YOU learned from Katrina?
What have we preppers learned from Katrina, and other major disasters of recent times, that we might incorporate into our own family's preparations for future events?
I am serious about the question. Preppers should always have their eyes and ears open, and always learning to hone their "craft," that craft being preparing to handle emergencies now and in the future.
I know that I have learned alot of things from Katrina, so I'll start it off in the next post.
Oh, one thing: I have never before asked any censure of anything that was written in a thread I have begun, because I believe in open debate and freedom of thought. But please refrain from ugly comments about New Orleanians. If you learned that you will never move your family into a home that is below sea level, then so be it. It probably just means that you've moved your family into an area ripe for a different kind of major disaster -- like an earthquake, tornado, wild fire, other kinds of flooding, or blizzards, or whatever. Or you live in a terrorist hot spot. Or whatever. Because there are very few areas of this country that don't entail one risk or another if you live there.
Anyway, please lets keep this a thread with a positive tone. I would like to see this a thread that allows us to reflect on what we have learned, with an eye to helping our selves, our families and our communities in the future.
What have YOU learned from Katrina?