IS ANYBODY READY? The Times Union Sunday, October 29, 2006 Perspective (B) section, carried an article: The home front. Individual households need to know how, and why, they should prepare for disaster, written by Jack Fenimore, a retired Air Force major general, former chair of the state Disaster Preparedness Commission.
The message in this article is that we can expect to be on our own in the event of major simultaneous terror attacks, pandemics or other disasters.
Fenimore writes: "For countless Americans, it all comes down to one simple truth: The quality of your life after a pandemic, terrorist attack or natural disaster will reflect the quality of your planning and preparation before the event. Relying totally on the government and other relief agencies is a strategic blunder with potentially dire outcomes."
In other words: don't look to government to save you, and your loved ones, in the event of terrorist attacks or other disasters. YOU are responsible for your survival, and the survival of your loved ones.
Check out the websites of those who aspire to be elected, or re-elected, to federal and state public offices, November 7. Public safety, homeland security and emergency/disaster preparedness positions are not the priority they should be.
We will be most vulnerable to terror attacks, and other disasters, as new leadership, and political control shifts occur at the federal and state levels. It takes, at least a year, for new government administrations to get organized.
Don't look to your neighborhood churches, synagogues and schools for any relief, because they have failed to prepare to serve as refuges in times of disasters or terror attacks.
As this site has been advising, (see numerous earlier entries) you are on your own and you bear the ultimate responsibility for your survival, and the survival of your loved ones.
So, Get Busy, TODAY, preparing for your own survival, and that of your loved ones.
For starters: Go to: www.ready.gov
Joe Sullivan
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