Disaster Preparedness

Disaster Preparedness

This is a Wikizine dedicated to disaster preparedness, emergency preparedness, disaster recovery, severe weather and other related topics. This wikizine was started by Keith Erwood who is an expert on the subject.

Where I live, seven miles from the San Andreas Fault in California, we just passed the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which devastated some areas of towns near where I live. As if that weren't reminder enough of the importance of emergency preparedness, last Tuesday we got almost 11 inches of rain from the remnants of a Pacific typhoon! We lost power and phone service for most of the day. Good reminders of how important it is...  
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