When I hear the words "Disaster Preparedness," my eyes glaze over. What inevitably follows the enunciation of these words is the recitation of an impossibly long list of commandments assembled by someone with OCD and too much time on his hands. To do these things requires a full day's work once a week!
There is always not enough attention to priorities--for example, what is the most important thing to do to get ready? Do you have any idea?
I'm part of a joint effort by the Episcopal Diocese and the United Methodist Churches of San Diego to both continue to rebuild from October 2007, and to prepare for the 2008 fire season, which is upon us. So I'll pass along some simple and easy things I've learned. Just time for one right now.
What is the most important thing to prepare for? What is the highest-probability "disaster"? It's a power outage. In virtually any natural disaster situation, the power will go off, and stay off. And, of course, we have power outages when there's no natural disaster. So we need to be prepared for the power to be off for at least three days.
That's enough for now.
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