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Originally Posted by Lauren Sweeny
Clogged roads for evacuation,no gas ,not enough ready small cash to pay for,food,water,gas etc..would help a person make the decision as to stay or leave. This was stated by many many people caught up in a mass exodus from several disasters recently across the globe.
The haves( prepared folks) vs Have nots( needy) will always be in confrontation when events last too long and supplies or help run out.
Newspaper articles from around the globe show long lines, frustrated people and gun toting individuals in all types of disasters,man made or natural.
Pooling resources works only within small very organized groups of prepared people willing to have a group leader or leaders making the important decisions.
Without some sort of organized leadership there is chaos! Disaster organization means; goods inventoried and securely stored,who has access to food water guns,ammo, MEDS.
Needed would be individuals from the group to maintain leadership teams,security teams, individuals to oversee medication,stocks of food & water, shelter,transportation etc.
All of the above info is referred to in disaster preparedness manuals .
When an individual is desperate anything can happen, emotions, frustration and anger beat out altruism in the real world.
We may be Americas Friendly town but outside are borders....?
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Were you living here when the tornado hit in 2007? If you were, you will remember a community truly coming together. The Red Cross served three hot meals a day. FEMA was here. All the major insurance companies were here in a matter of hours, set up to write out big checks immediately. Governor Charlie Crist spent five days here pledging all the state help we needed. More residents opened up their homes to evacuees than were needed. I could go on and on, but you get the gist.
If these services had not been able to get through, the state would have been in bigger trouble than imaginable, and nobody would be able to go anywhere. In a case like that, as we used to say in the airline industry, bend over and kiss your behind good-bye.