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Dear Tom,

 

I don't know why ANYONE would have met advice for Disaster Preaprdedness with any negativity at all!  Pick up this month's Horse Illustrated about the efforts to save live animals that are still going on in Louisiana.  Look at the section on those that were not able to be helped and why.  Like leaving them abandoned in their stalls with the building collapsing on them.  Dogs tied to trees instead of turning them loose and giving them a fighting chance. 

 

There is NOTHING more scary than having to figure out what to do with a live animal whether it is a horse, mule, dog, cat, bird, and any other type of live animal.  When you are also trying to figure out what to do for your family.   By-the-way, many of the animals in the southeast that survived the hurricane and still died.  Did so because there was not any FOOD or WATER! 

 

I'll reinterate...anyone that takes this lightly is looking to be the next victim.  There are all sorts of programs on the internet that help you to develop a sound disaster plan for you and your family as-well-as your beloved animals.

 

D'Arcy

Tom Sites <goearth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Having just returned from a short course on the above subject, put on not by a Dooms Day Group, but rather the Virginia Tech Co-Operative, it opened my eyes more than ever that we, as a Nation are not prepared for Disaster:  either Natural or Caused by Man.

 

Basic prepardedness of food, water, fuel and cash (if the banks go down for instance by an Internet crash, which the War Game senerio just played out by the CIA in Charlottesville this past summer by some computer gamers and experts played for 90 days of just what would happen if it DID go down for that long) for ouselves and our pets.  The recent examples of just what can happen if a Natural Disaster happens to a Region, imagine a Man Made Disaster on a National Scale, should be enough to alarm even those that are kin to Ostriches and keep their head in the sand until something bowls them over.  Anarchy will be on the streets and small towns of America.

 

My Mother always said..."A Hint to the Wise is Sufficient" and my hint would to be a good Boy Scout and "Be Prepared" with a Disaster Plan.  Knowing that i am even met w/ skepticism among some i know  i can only imagine what those that don't know me must think.  So be it.

 

ts

 

 

D'Arcy Lynne
 
"What is behind us and what is before us is insignificant compared to what is within us" - Ralph Waldo Emerson