during the upcoming hurricane season (or for anything else, apparently) https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/07/trumps-fema-to-americans-dont-count-on-us-this-hurricane-season/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
If you believe in magic then expect FEMA to drop from a cloud to save you. Otherwise, look locally for preparation.
Agreed. Anyone who saw the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and still trusts FEMA with their lives is a fool.
FEMA was supposed to be the clean-up and not the first responder. It can't be the first responder. If that's wanted on a national, federal level then give the responsibility to the military. And even the military can't work magic, as can be seen in Puerto Rico. But another General Honore would be interesting.
To be fair, given their current level of funding, it's extremely difficult to allocate adequate resources to both their disaster relief efforts and their Illuminati-mandated death camp efforts.
On a very serious note- every single person should be prepared for a major emergency. Keeping an emergency "go bag" in both your home and your car, and having a plan as to where to go and what to do, is your best bet. Let FEMA be your absolute final resort and you give yourself more of a fighting chance, and also allow rescuers to focus their efforts on more vulnerable people. I get this warning several times a year by my congregation's ministers, and I want to share it with others whenever possible. This thread seems like a good place for it
Expecting the government to be first to respond in a natural disaster is modern day helplessness. Right after a disaster, if there are no friends, neighbors, good samaritans then you in a lot of trouble. The government will eventually get there. There was a good example of this in Texas last year. In the Caribbean, by the time the government arrived people are already back to their normal business.
Maybe the UN can take over the death camps. Here in California, where "the Big One", a devastating Mag 8+ earthquake could hit at any time with no warning, they run periodic TV ads with that message. Most of us don't pay enough attention though. Make a plan with your family/loved ones about where to meet up if you can't meet at home. The electric power might remain out for some time. If you have a car that survives, that could be your emergency shelter for a while. Get a sleeping bag obviously, along with flashlights and maybe an electric lantern, and keep batteries fresh. You can buy emergency lanterns and even flashlights with cranks on them so that you can charge their batteries by hand and not have to worry about their going dead on you if you have to use them a lot. Get a battery radio too (maybe one with a crank), to hear the emergency announcements. (Your cellphone probably won't work, but they will probably get some kind of radio broadcast going with portable generators if need be.) Food and water will be problems because stores won't be open. So have a stash of bottled water and non-perishable food items. Hide a stash of emergency cash, since the ATMs won't be working. After a few days the National Guard, Red Cross and whatever will probably be arriving to provide some bare-bones emergency services. They may be stretched thin, so don't expect much. (A weapon might be a good idea, albeit not politically correct. Especially if you live in a crime-ridden area and there's looting.) Get all your numbers together, like insurance numbers and bank account numbers. Stuff you are sentimental about, like family photos. Make sure you have your IDs. I think that FEMA is more about low-cost disaster loans for rebuilding homes and businesses and stuff like that. Transitional arrangements as things slowly get back to normal, not search-and-rescue or immediate emergency relief. That's the job of the local first-responders and the National Guard.
A small island is like a turtle on its back after that. In the U.S., an affected area will get aid from unaffected areas. Dominica would need hurricane capable structure and infrastructure to survive. Maybe domed buildings would help.
Speaking of which... How is Dominica doing now? Are they recovering successfully? What's life like for the people there?
Thanks for asking. Things are more or less back to normal, although at a slightly lower equilibrium than before. The population went down a bit, there are always some people who go to other islands after a hit like that, some of them come ack in a few months, some in a few years, some never do. Ross still isn't back yet, they're holding classes in temporary locations elsewhere while they finish rebuilding the campus. Some in the opposition are trying to claim for political gain that it's unlikely they'll return, but they just hired a new dean to lead the school who is a respected Dominican physician, so I think that's pretty unlikely. But the lights are on, the Internet works, the roads are passable, and cruise ships are calling, so it's come a long way since the initial aftermath.
Things are changing, my parents told us about hurricanes and people moving on. I experienced many hurricanes. Recently, on Facebook i saw people on SVG asking for help after a hurricane. As a kid, we were happy to be alive after a hurricane. Our first task was to start the cleanup, little by little. I never heard in my childhood anyone seeking government help. Governments are lousy in good times, it is unreasonable to expect government to be great in a disaster.
