I’m still amazed at the destruction of the Earthquake and Tsunami that struck Japan on March the 11th. Truly amazing video and photos coming out of there. And the amount of human suffering can’t even begin to be counted nor imagined. Yet, as I watch the Survivors go about trying to make it day to day, I can’t help but think how many of those people were actually prepared for something like this. There are lessons to be learned from the Japan earthquake and tsunami, yet I imagine few will take heed. In all honestly, I doubt anyone could be 100% prepared for anything of this size. Yet when I see all those people scouring the bare shelves of the grocery stores looking for food or waiting in line for hours, or even days for fuel, I wonder how many of them had thought about something like this might happen and practiced emergency preparedness? From the looks of it, very few.
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Lessons Learned From the Japan Earthqake and Tsunami
March 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments · earthquake, Emergency Preparedness
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Is Nature Cleaning Up The Gulf Oil Spill?
July 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Gulf Oil Spill
The big news on the Gulf oil spill now is where has all the oil gone? The size of the slick has shrunk tremendously and it has a lot of folks, including Government officials and tree huggers, wondering where the oil has gone. Some say it has sank to the ocean’s floor and is sitting just under the silt, other say it has been taken away by the Gulf stream and still others say it has all washed up into the marshes. There are even those who say that the oil is sitting in the water column, somewhere between the surface and the bottom. But preliminary results tend to show that perhaps Nature is cleaning up the Gulf oil spill.
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