Re: US FEMA National Preparedness Month exercise

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Rob Sladewrote:

> In keeping with my long-standing advocacy for emergency preparation, I would 
> urge all American members of this group to have a serious look at:
>
> http://community.fema.gov/connect.ti/READYNPM
>
> Non-US citizens can join as well.  (I just did.)  When you do, you get access to 
> some resource materials.  Although fairly simplistic, and heavily larded with 
> advertising for the event itself, the materials do contain some useful checklists, 
> forms, and awareness materials that are useful for BCP work.

Having lived through the upheaval of three recent-ish, surprisingly-
damaging-given-their-Richter-Scale-rating earthquakes, two of which 
locally resulted in in power outages, and loss of normal water supply 
for one to two weeks per incident, and restricted use of sewage systems 
directly affecting the suburb where I live (we got notices from the 
local council just yesterday saying we could use the toilets in the 
house, as opposed to the Portaloos on the street corners, some ~5 
months after the local sewers were first deemed "marginal"), I cannot 
recommend _enough_ the value of making the small effort necessary to 
stock up and maintain the basic survival supplies, etc that such 
programmes typically recommend (I've not looked at the material linked 
above, but the general advice of these programmes around the (Western) 
world are typically quite similar).



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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