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  •   about 15 years ago

Pencil Pushing Bureaucrats collecting a paycheck

US not prepared for 'mega-disaster': official AFP – Fri Mar 18, 10:07 am ET A crest of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is... AFP/File WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States is not as prepared as it should be for a disaster on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, a former top emergency response official said Thursday.
 
Things are heating up around the world...more earthquakes, increased sunspot activity, politcal turmoil and what are we doing?  We are running a contest!
Planning needs to get underway NOW in earnest at the LOCAL LEVEL...for likely local events.
FEMA needs to get serious...  or bring in some new people who are.

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  •   •   about 15 years ago

    I wrote this when I was triggered.  I realize there are outstanding folks at FEMA working hard on the issues before us.  I can 't help however to have the feeling that a lot more needs to be done... Most likely it will take another major event to light a fire under everyone.  Just like how people are now relooking at Nuclear Energy after the problems in Japan have come to light.  It's the local communities that are alsways most effected.
    With the right guidance and support from FEMA, the local communities can become motivated to step up to this challange of more serious planning.  I've suggested that the LEPC structure be used but I am sure there are other approaches that could be looked at.

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