Preparing For a Disaster (Other than Gigli or Catwoman)
There is quite a lot of good disaster preparedness information at the FEMA site here, including a Disaster Preparedness Coloring Book, available in both English and Spanish. For once, I'll try to hold back on making snarky comments about this.
Update 9/3/05: California-specific info here.
At the suggestion of our friend Barbara, we are now in the planning stages of getting a friend and neighbor disaster plan in place. I urge you to do the same.
Look, we'd better take the initiative ourselves, because, as evidenced by the woefully inadequate response of our federal government to the wrath of Katrina, our friends and neighbors seem to be the only people we can count on.
Speaking of "the wrath of Katrina", can you not envision an overhead shot of Captain Kirk looking upward, quaking with anger, and shouting, "Katrina!", with his curse/lament echoing throughout the void?
Then again, would he shout out in anguish, "FEMA!!!"?
A lot of lessons learned here, which I hope we'll heed in the future...
Update 9/3/05: California-specific info here.
At the suggestion of our friend Barbara, we are now in the planning stages of getting a friend and neighbor disaster plan in place. I urge you to do the same.
Look, we'd better take the initiative ourselves, because, as evidenced by the woefully inadequate response of our federal government to the wrath of Katrina, our friends and neighbors seem to be the only people we can count on.
Speaking of "the wrath of Katrina", can you not envision an overhead shot of Captain Kirk looking upward, quaking with anger, and shouting, "Katrina!", with his curse/lament echoing throughout the void?
Then again, would he shout out in anguish, "FEMA!!!"?
A lot of lessons learned here, which I hope we'll heed in the future...
posted by Mike King at 8:15 PM
4 Comments:
Whoa, if this isn't some kind of automated spam type comment, I don't know what is. Blast.
I'm so sorry! I thought this was your 1st non friend or family post!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Every time that I read about the government's response to Katrina, I get really sad and really angry. But, I can't stay angry and sad all of the time. Your blog brought much-needed humor to my day.
Stolie, thanks for the comment. Remember after 9/11, and the question being asked was, "Will humor and sarcasm ever return, or are the times too serious?" Thankfully that's not the case.
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