A readiness challenge from FEMA
Do you have ideas about how to help individuals, families, and communities be ready? If so, the Preparing our Communities Before a Disaster Strikes challenge from the Federal Emergency Management...
View ArticleThe looming currency collapse
UPDATE: For those who find the linked video too painful (that is badly done) to watch, if you browse away from it, then click “Stay on this page” from the resulting pop-up” it will take you to a...
View ArticleWhen will you be ready?
If an emergency were to happen today, what would you do? What if the power went out? What if you could not buy gas or groceries? What is your plan? We live in unsettled times. Riots aren’t just for the...
View ArticleReadiness Watch for the Week of 14 March 2011
Readiness Watch is a weekly publication intended to provide current, relevant, and actionable readiness information to people determined to be ready for whatever comes next, and especially for those...
View ArticleReadiness Watch for the Week of 21 March 2011
Readiness Watch is a weekly publication intended to provide current, relevant, and actionable readiness information to people determined to be ready for whatever comes next, and especially for those...
View ArticleBe ready now: 3 things you can start doing this week to be ready for whatever...
Be ready now is a weekly post about things you can do right now to get ready for whatever might come next courtesy of Dennis L Hitzeman’s Readiness Weblog. You can find other posts in this series in...
View ArticleBe ready now: A 5 week recap
Be ready now is a weekly post about things you can do right now to get ready for whatever might come next courtesy of Dennis L Hitzeman’s Readiness Weblog. You can find other posts in this series in...
View ArticleBe ready now: 3 things you can start doing this week to be ready for whatever...
Be ready now is a weekly post about things you can do right now to get ready for whatever might come next courtesy of Dennis L Hitzeman’s Readiness Weblog. You can find other posts in this series in...
View ArticleSome thoughts on Irene
Hurricane Irene has come and gone, leaving a swath of destruction in her wake. The latest reports indicate 21 people died, millions are without power, and the high winds and flooding have probably...
View ArticleDecember 31st, 2012
Have you been putting of getting yourself and those you care about ready? Have you been looking for evidence or incentive to start? Well, look no further. On December 31st, 2012, most of the nation’s...
View ArticleGet ready now
I’ll be the first to admit I’ve gotten comfortable recently and slacked of my own readiness plans, but we had multiple tornadoes touch down in our area last night, and it reminded me that disaster can...
View ArticleWe need to be thinking about how to GTFH too
I’ve been thinking about readiness a lot more recently. It’s easy to get complacent, especially when you “feel” ready, but the fact is even the best prepared among us are never as ready as we think we...
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