Jill Terreri, in her recent article, takes a look at community groups in Buffalo that are working together to make preparedness a goal at the neighborhood level. The decentralized approach seems like a good idea, since it will be easier to get supplies from the end of the street to those who need them, as compared to getting needed items from a warehouse on the other side of town. It would still be better if...
Jim McKay wrote an article yesterday that takes a look at the effectiveness of the current disaster readiness message in the United States. Apparently, the vast majority of US citizens do not even have the most basic preparations for dealing with emergencies and many of the ones who think they are ready for disasters are also rather unprepared: “Americans have a false sense of security when it comes to disasters, and should they become victims,...
If you don’t plan on keeping some extra food on hand, then this article by Tim MacWelch is certainly worth a read. A hot pizza with extra cheese would be enough to bring me to tears after eating acorns for a few days, though: “If you find yourself in a wilderness emergency without food…you can rely on some of the wild edible plants that kept our forebears alive through tough times. Here are five of...