[EAS] Preparedness and Survival Generalities

[Mike McCarthy]

Comparing a family/personal emergency plan to a war attack battle plan is
apples and oranges..though I don't dispute the generalized conclusions
presented when engaging any adversary be it Ma-Nature or an army.

The point which Art's and my exchange should be obvious is different
living conditions require different types and levels of preparation. But
everyone should have a minimal go-bag with 3 days provisions as that's
what it takes for a regional response to assemble and ramp up. And the
current event in progress has borne that time line out as well.

A side note to this, I heard a sound bite on the news last night of a
woman who was just rescued commenting, "The city should have been better
prepared." Aside from the abject dismissal of the training first
responders undertook in rescue skills, she didn't prepare herself
properly.

In many ways, that one comment succinctly describes the difference between
"urbanites" and "rurals" in Art's comments.

MM

On Tue, August 29, 2017 1:12 pm, Phil Johnson wrote:
> Here's why Art's second point is important:
>
> German military strategist Helmuth von Moltke once noted:  "No battle
> plan "survives contact with the enemy."
>
> The "enemy," in many cases, is Mother Nature.