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I greet you in the love and the light of the infinite Creator.
Barack Obama Warns Americans �To Be Prepared For A Disaster�
By, Michael Snyder.
When Barack Obama speaks to the public, it is very rare that he does so without a specific
purpose in mind. So why is he urging Americans �to be prepared for a disaster� all of
a sudden? On May 31, Obama took time out of his extremely busy schedule to deliver an
address at the FEMA National Response Coordination Center in Washington. During his speech, he
stressed that every American is responsible for preparing for disasters, and that includes
�having an evacuation plan� and �having a fully stocked disaster supply kit.� These
are basic steps that I have been encouraging people to do for years, but if they won�t
listen to me, perhaps they will listen to the man currently residing in the White House.
The following excerpt from Obama�s speech comes directly from the official White House
website�
One of the things that we have learned over the course of the last seven and a half years
is that government plays a vital role, but it is every citizen�s responsibility to
be prepared for a disaster. And that means taking proactive steps, like having an evacuation
plan, having a fully stocked disaster supply kit. If your local authorities ask you to
evacuate, you have to do it. Don�t wait.
This speech was timed to coincide with the beginning of the hurricane season, although
hurricanes have not posed much of a threat lately.
In fact, a major hurricane has not made landfall in the United States for 127 straight months.
But without a doubt, we all need to be preparing for disaster. Hurricanes can create a short-term
emergency that can last for a few days, but there are other threats that could create
a major emergency that could potentially last for an extended period of time. That list
of potential threats includes a major volcanic eruption, a natural or engineered pandemic,
a west coast earthquake, a New Madrid earthquake, a tsunami on either the east or west coasts,
a meteor impact, Islamic terror, war, an EMP burst that takes down the power grid, cyberwarfare,
economic collapse, and civil unrest resulting in the imposition of martial law.
Of course the items that I just mentioned are not mutually exclusive. In fact, in different
scenarios we could actually see multiple events happen in rapid succession.
It is interesting to note that during his speech Barack Obama also noted that the American
people seem to have become very complacent about getting prepared�
And what we�ve been seeing is some public complacency slipping in; a large portion of
people not having preparedness kits, not having evacuation plans.
This is exactly what I have been noticing as well. There appears to be a tremendous
amount of apathy out there, and relatively few people really seem to feel much urgency
to get prepared these days.
My contacts in the emergency preparedness industry have been telling me that sales are
way down right now. There was a big peak last fall, but since then it is like interest in
prepping has just fallen off the map.
Ultimately, those companies are going to be okay because interest will pick back up shortly
as global events begin to spiral completely out of control. However, of much greater concern
is the fact that people have not been using this period of relative calm constructively.
Just like we have seen in Venezuela, time to prepare eventually runs out. And someday
there will be millions of parents that are absolutely horrified when their children come
to them crying out for food and they don�t have anything to give to them because they
didn�t heed the warnings and they didn�t get prepared.
When that day arrives, many of those families may be forced to turn to whatever help the
government is offering at the time.
One more thing that I found particularly noteworthy about Obama�s speech was that he said that
there is now �a FEMA app� that can direct you to the nearest �FEMA shelter� in the
event of a major emergency.
If you need information about how to put together an evacuation plan, how to put together a
disaster preparedness kit, as Craig said, we�ve got an app for everything now. We
have a FEMA app in English and in Spanish to help you prepare your family for a disaster.
You can update the National Weather Service alerts. You can get safety tips for more than
20 kinds of hazards. It provides you directions to nearby shelters.