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Why aren’t you ready yet?
Are you prepared for it? For whatever “it"s are most likely in your area?
No? Me neither. (Yep, even emergency-preparedness writers still have work to do. I do a bit at a time and still feel guilty that I haven’t done everything I’d like to yet.) And a recent survey by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency suggests that ”the proportion of those who have taken appropriate preparedness measures is much lower than those that indicate that they are prepared.”
There’s no “one size fits all” plan, which means you have to give your emergency planning real thought. Does your household have others besides you in it? Do you have seniors in your family? People with disabilities or special needs? Kids? Infants? Pets? All these categories require specific planning, which is daunting when you don’t know where to start.
Authorities always suggest you have a disaster plan and disaster kits — and not just one, either, but one for home and one for your car and one for your workplace and one for your kids and one for your pets and and and. Some authorities suggest you plan for things you’d need if you stayed home, things you’d need if you left, and things you’d need to do if you were leaving anything you wanted to take behind — securing your building, arranging for livestock care, double-checking insurance, any number of other tasks. That’s even more lists. That leaves you with a heck of a lot of work to do just to rough out a plan, never mind to make all the lists you’d need to shop for all those disaster kits — and then you have To Do and To Buy lists and really, how many of us ever get through even simple To Do lists unless deadlines are staring us in the face?
Also, what I most want to plan for in my area (hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards and ice storms) might be very different from what a friend in California plans for (e.g., wildfires, mudslides, earthquakes) vs. what a relative in the Midwestern US needs to think about (e.g., floods, lightning storms). While many US states and Canadian provinces have their own regionally focused emergency Web sites, it can be daunting to narrow down what you, personally, most need to realistically plan for.
Many things you know you really would like to do (e.g. move your most important files to a fireproof or waterproof safe, and save photocopies at another location; back up a research project or novel manuscript onto portable media; duplicate irreplaceable family photos or memorabilia) might feel like giant unmanageable projects all by themselves. One of the things that nagged at me for years, back when I worked mostly on desktop computers, was how to save our family-history database in case we had to leave in a hurry — removable hard drives seemed impractical and expensive. Now I own an iPhone, and the whole thing is backed up into a single app. (I could, of course, have made copies on CD and stored with an out-of-town relative. But that would have been a Project, so it never got done.)
To add even more guilt to the mix, people who pay close attention to news about emergency preparedness often feel they should be doing even more — brushing up their first aid and CPR, going through drills, joining a community response team. The more we’d like to do, often, the more overwhelmed we feel and the less we wind up doing.
So let’s begin to break down those Projects and to-do lists into smaller, more manageable pieces, shall we? We’ll do that in future articles, so stay tuned.
here’s The Death of a Thousand Cuts, yeah 650-251, and Hemingway’s brainless A Coward Dies a Thousand Times, but again there’s Too Tough to Die, Too Dumb to Die, If You’re Gonna Die, Die With Your Boots On! and Live or Die (But Don’t Spoil Everything) 70-238. There’s aswell Die, Die, My Darling, Die Monster Die, and DIE IF YOU WANT TO, YOU INNOCENT PUPPET 70-272. Die With Me, Die For Me, If You Ride With Me Be Prepared to Die. Die Hard, Die Hard, Too, and Die Hard With A Vengeance…
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