[EAS] Preparedness and Survival Generalities

[Rod Zeigler]

You know gentlemen, I do believe we are in agreement on practically all 
points, we might have some different opinions on some details.
I work on preps for places all over the country. Rural, urban, desert, 
mountain, and everything else. One thing I truly believe is that people 
are basically the same everywhere, and when push comes to shove, will 
generally help each other out. Sometimes it takes a disaster to get them 
to thinking about prepping. If they are lucky they learn from watching 
others experiences, if not, they get a personal crash course in what to 
do before next time, assuming they get a chance at a next time.
The people I really feel sorry for are those poor souls that prep in the 
city, read books, buy supplies, buy land in the country, and expect to 
just show up there and survive. The smartest thing anyone can do is prep 
for where they live, and if they do decide that living out in the 
country is what they want to do, fine, but spend almost all free time 
there and get to know what they are getting into, how to deal with it, 
and how to adjust their preps to fit the reality. It would be the same 
for someone in a rural area intending to head to the city in case of 
disaster, which will happen.
How does all of this tie in to EAS, since this is an EAS list after all? 
Simple. Those of us charged with keeping EAS going have to be prepared 
to survive in the conditions we are alerting the public to, so we can 
keep the alerts going. If we don't do that we fail in our mission. We 
can all argue all day about this and that shortfall of the EAS system, 
but in the end it comes down to broadcasting information to those that 
need it, when they need it. We need to put ourselves in the position to 
be able to do that over the long haul. Easy and cheap? No, but then 
nothing of value is.
It is one thing to keep some supplies at the transmitter site to keep 
the people there going, it is another to do the same at the studio for 
potentially more people.

Rod

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R. V. Zeigler, Dir. of Eng.
Nebraska Rural Radio Assn.
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