{"id":26180,"date":"2017-09-27T18:34:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26180"},"modified":"2017-09-27T18:34:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:34:25","slug":"fema-director-urges-americans-to-develop-a-true-culture-of-preparedness-but-no-one-is-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26180","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Director Urges Americans to Develop \u201ca true culture of preparedness\u201d But No One Is Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"

FEMA Director Urges Americans to Develop \u201ca true culture of preparedness\u201d But No One Is Listening<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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It looks like preppers aren\u2019t that crazy after all. FEMA\u2019s new director, Brock Long, has repeatedly said that Americans do not have a \u201cculture of preparedness,\u201d something that is much-needed with the startling uptick in natural disasters. Long has only been the director of FEMA since June 20 of this year and already has had to deal with a historic number of disasters<\/a> in this short period of time.<\/p>\n

It appears that Mr. Long has a mindset of self-reliance based on a couple of recent statements he has made to the media, but the MSM doesn\u2019t seem too interested in his ideas about fostering a culture of preparedness, despite the practicality and essential nature of his suggestions.<\/p>\n

First, in an interview from Sept. 11 that I personally only heard about yesterday, FEMA\u2019s new director, Brock Long, spoke with journalists to discuss the response to Hurricane Irma. In the interview, he said some things that vindicate all of us who have spent time and money working toward being prepared.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really think that we have a long way to go to create a true culture of preparedness within our citizenry in America. No American, no citizen, no visitor to this country is immune to disaster. And we have a long way to go to get people to understand the hazards based on where they dwell, where they work, and how to be prepared financially, how to be prepared through insurance, how to have continuity of operations plans for their businesses, so that we can avoid the suffering, the strife, and the loss of life. It\u2019s truly disappointing that people won\u2019t heed the warnings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Straight out of\u00a0our favorite prepper handbooks<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n

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FEMA Director Urges Americans to Develop \u201ca true culture of preparedness\u201d But No One Is Listening It looks like preppers aren\u2019t that crazy after all. FEMA\u2019s new director, Brock Long, has repeatedly said that Americans do not have a \u201cculture of preparedness,\u201d something that is much-needed with the startling uptick in natural disasters. Long has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15915,6156,307,4728,5837,649,650,715],"class_list":["post-26180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-brock-long","tag-daisy-luther","tag-fema","tag-msm","tag-organic-prepper","tag-preparedness","tag-prepping","tag-self-reliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26181,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26180\/revisions\/26181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}