Quote Originally Posted by Grace View Post

I don't agree with this at all. I remember after Katrina - it was ordinary people who came to help.
I was alluding to the people AT the site of the disaster.

In '94 people we pi$$ing and moaning about how the gov't. and local officials didn't come to their aid. THEY/WE did nothing to help ourselves when we needed to.

I am talking about the people in and around the San Fernando Valley. The most common problem was people getting fecal matter stuck under the nails of their thumbs.

I do not expect the FD/PD/FEMA to show up for a few days after anything happens. Ordinary people did come here to help but, that was after the first 72 hours-we had already taken it on the chin.

Katrina was a U.S. based catastrophe, we didn't have to worry about getting to an island and off loading supplies on an airstrip that had no control tower and two runways? The logistics of Katrina, while just as bad, served as a blueprint for what not to do, expect or how to handle a disaster like that.



There are differences between a hurricane an earthquake.
You can prepare for a 'cane or pretty much and wind/weather disaster.

Try this.

Wake up at 4:00 a.m.
Grab your clothes and run out of the house, with no shoes on.

Oh, before you go to sleep- break glass, pull down some furniture to block the exit path you have chosen, and make sure the water heater is on the floor leaking, the gas line is broken and it's pitch black outdoors.