Comments on: Are you ready for National Preparedness Month?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:33:39 +0000

So, are you saying national preparedness nmonth is a bad idea or just how homeland security handles it. What are ou doing to help your family and community ve prepared. We need more people activly contibuting to imporvement and less government waste or anti-government retoric. Do something constructive instead of point out others faults.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:59:17 +0000

I don’t know if I would have wanted them here. They probably would have herded us into some substandard shelter to prevent us from doing something like drinking that black sludge coming from the faucet and then we’d have gone hungry with the packs of toothbrushes and deoderant and crosswords the red cross handed out.

Of course, it wasn’t anything like Katrina…the nearest undamaged town was all of 20 minutes away.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:17:44 +0000

I think September is National “Let’s all boost Duct Tape Sales” month.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:34:49 +0000

And, if I’m not mistaken, FEMA never showed up. They pulled the same thing not far from here last year.

By: Dana Hanley

Dana Hanley — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:24:57 +0000

I just wouldn’t know what to do if the state didn’t tell me. A couple of years ago we had pretty nasty tornados go through. They completely levelled a neighboring town. The sirens didn’t even go off. I don’t know how we managed to get to the neighbor’s basement without a personal call from the governor. Or how we managed to find food, water and shelter for our ENTIRE town BEFORE the Red Cross arrived.

And those evil profit mongering businesses….Walmart brought out more water than we knew what to do with, backpacks for the kids and a bunch of candy bars. Burger King fed us. There were actually several offers of assistance, but we had to ask them to stop. And not one of them included it in any ad campaign…

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:08:57 +0000

Yes, but the guy who came up with the duct tape idea is now running FEMA.

By: Kevin Fields

Kevin Fields — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:57:46 +0000

Hey give them some credit. FEMA took a lot of shit last year because they couldn’t dedicate resources to abandonded pets in New Orleans. It forced hurricane victims to choose between saving a loved member of their family or saving themselves. Perhaps we could do a little better if pet owners had better information and preparedness.

It’s gotta be better than advocating duct tape in the event of biological warfare, anyhow.