Reply #148: this ability to network [View All]

[marions ghost]

seems very important.

Communication is often overlooked when people do disaster preparation. Typical of our society, it's everyone out for themselves. Actually a lot of people will need help, no matter how much water and canned food they stock up on. People in rural areas are used to looking out for each other, but this is not true in cities and suburbs. I call it "primitive in sububia."

We need some community-based disaster preparedness plans --to cover neighborhoods before larger agencies respond (as we saw in Katrina this was sadly lacking).