Gone Before You Get There Top 77 Items That Will Be Gone Before You Get There - Original PDF
نویسندگان: Bryce Pearson
خلاصه: Cataclysms, disasters, catastrophes, crises, calamities, and emergencies.They happen more often than we’d like. They can range anywhere from a majorearthquake, to a blizzard, to an uncontrolled wildfire, to a localized house fire.The best way to survive any calamity is to be prepared. But how does one goabout preparing for – who knows what?It all seems so ambiguous and far removed from where we live our dailylives. We get up, take the kids to school, go to work, come home, eat, watch alittle TV, go to bed and do it again the next day (with a few vacations thrown infor good measure). In our own comfortable routines, we are lulled into a senseof cocooned safety which leads to complacency.But then something happens – a flood that wipes you out overnight.Perhaps a tornado rips through, or a hurricane (like the now infamous Katrina),and you realize more fully how quickly an emergency can arise.The bizarre ice storm that covered Northeastern Oklahoma in December of2007 left hundreds of thousands without power for a week or more in freezingweather. Few were prepared.In July 2008, a major flood took out a large portion of Iowa and a smallpart of Illinois. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power and it was a week ormore before it was restored. Water‐filled homes forced people to flee. Therewas no drinking water because of contamination. The sewers were flooded out.When the people needed it the most, there were no FEMA trucks so others hadto step in to help.A few months later, Hurricane Ike hit the Texas gulf coast and devastatedthe area including most of the coastal city of Galveston. Again, no power and allsystems that we take for granted were disrupted.