My wife and I made a trip to the Crystal Beach and Galveston, Texas area last weekend. Galveston does not look too bad, but Roll Over Pass and Crystal Beach look really bad.
As we were driving along the beach road, there was nothing but empty lots where houses used to be. Pillars were sticking up out of the ground all along the beach front, evidence of where houses used to be. Its eerie, to say the least, to see entire communities whipped out overnight.
Watch the video over at youtube Complacency with disaster preparedness
Over at my survival boards blog - an article was posted about Galveston, Bridge City, Hurricane Ike and becoming complacent with disaster preparedness.
One of the impressions I got from my trip to the beach, its amazing how quick things can happen, and how wide spread the damage was. Not only were hundreds of homes destroyed along the beach, but thousands of homes were flooded up to 20 miles inland from the storm surge. The damage goes from Galveston, all the way to Southwest Louisiana. Its going to take years for the area to recover. Maybe even a decade or more for the emotional damage to heal.
Now comes the big question, how well are we prepared for a wide spread disaster? How would the world, or the USA react if a replay of 1348 happened? I'am going to be making a video and making a big blog post on recovering after a disaster.
Showing posts with label disaster preparedness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disaster preparedness. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Swine Flu reported in California, Mexico andTexas
On April 23rd, the Texas Department of State Health Services has reported 2 confirmed cases of Swine Flu in Texas.
Here is a link to the Texas DSHS swine flu press release.
Even though this virus has been called "swine flu", its a mixture of flu viruses found in pigs, birds and humans.
Besides Texas, there have been confirmed cases of the Swine Flu H1N1 virus in California and Mexico.
For more information, visit the Swine Flu thread of the survivalist forum.
Even though the people at the Center of Disease say there is no need to panic (and I agree with them), its my opinion that this situation should be watched. So lets just keep and eye on things and see what happens.
Here is a link to the Texas DSHS swine flu press release.
Even though this virus has been called "swine flu", its a mixture of flu viruses found in pigs, birds and humans.
Besides Texas, there have been confirmed cases of the Swine Flu H1N1 virus in California and Mexico.
For more information, visit the Swine Flu thread of the survivalist forum.
Even though the people at the Center of Disease say there is no need to panic (and I agree with them), its my opinion that this situation should be watched. So lets just keep and eye on things and see what happens.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Fema Camps
It seems that there is a lot of misinformation going around about what FEMA really does.
After Bridge City Texas was flooded by Hurricane Ike, fema brought in hundreds of temporary homes, and set them up in front of peoples houses. Open fields were turned into these so called "FEMA camps". PEople in Bridge City had nowhere to go. Our of several thousand homes, only about 12 had not been flooded.
Some of the houses had gotten 4, 5 and even 9 feed of saltwater mixed with marsh mud in them.
Here are some pictures of FEMA trailers in Bridge City, Texas. Just a couple of months before those pictures were taken, the roads were under 4 - 6 feet of water.
FEMA was setup to help people, not throw them in some type of FEMA camp prison.
To discuss this post, visit the FEMA camp discussion thread of the Survivalist Forum.
After Bridge City Texas was flooded by Hurricane Ike, fema brought in hundreds of temporary homes, and set them up in front of peoples houses. Open fields were turned into these so called "FEMA camps". PEople in Bridge City had nowhere to go. Our of several thousand homes, only about 12 had not been flooded.
Some of the houses had gotten 4, 5 and even 9 feed of saltwater mixed with marsh mud in them.
Here are some pictures of FEMA trailers in Bridge City, Texas. Just a couple of months before those pictures were taken, the roads were under 4 - 6 feet of water.
FEMA was setup to help people, not throw them in some type of FEMA camp prison.
To discuss this post, visit the FEMA camp discussion thread of the Survivalist Forum.
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