[Grovenet] Ready . . . or not

[Steven]

With a 50Mton bomb aimed at Seattle, where I lived in the 70s, plans 
were simple. You could not escape the death zone with a clear highway 
and the fastest hot rod within the 15 minute warning time. My plan was 
to drive to as close to center as possible. A lingering death by 
radiation sickness is not pleasant.
For most things, have at least 3 days supply of the things you need.
I have lived through major city riots. The veil of authority is quite 
slim. There is a large segment of society that obeys the laws simply 
because the police say so.Without overriding legal authority, many 
people will do whatever they want. That is the most dangerous part. The 
Gore wording was intentional.

allnutt wrote:
> Interesting site Ron.
> I remember going to ready.gov in its early days and finding it particularly 
> unhelpful. Especially the sheltering in place instructions.  The critics are 
> quite right that it never explained how you were to know whether to stay put 
> or to try to get away. But then I also figured, if the right thing to do was 
> get away,, how in the world would the roads hold all the cars. Remembering 
> Houston's fiasco with hurricane Rita it may be the case that your chances of 
> survival are the highest if you just default to stay in place. In all of the 
> disaster preparedness that I have seen, the recommendation is to travel 
> perpendicular to the direction that the danger is travelling, because that 
> is the shortest distance to minimize your exposure.  Leaving presupposes 
> that a) your FEMA or government sources have correctly identified what is 
> going on (not likely while all the Bush cronies are still in office) and b) 
> that there is a road in the direction that you need to go. Perhaps I am a 
> bit fatalistic but that seems to be a matter of luck or poor planning on the 
> terrorists part.
>
> I think a truly complete disaster preparation plan would be to get a really 
> good respirator for chemical attack and go to a dental supply company for a 
> lead lined apron for every member of your family in case of a nuclear 
> attack.  That way if you really are stuck in place you can have a modicum of 
> protection from the threats that you might not be able to outrun.  (My car 
> cannot outrun a radioactive particle yet, even though I would likely be 
> going as fast as I could.)
>
> And my guess is that the government site was done by no bid contract that 
> paid by the word. So of course there are sections of rather randomly 
> repeated information. If you write it once, why not get paid for it twice. 
> Right?  Somebody is going to the bank happy.
>
> Kudos to the scientists who took it upon themselves to try to make something 
> accurate and helpful.
>
> Katie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <rondec at easystreet.com>
> To: "'Forest Grove local interests list'" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:27 PM
> Subject: [Grovenet] Ready . . . or not
>
>
>   
>> I ran across this interesting information a the site of the Bulletin of 
>> the
>> Atomic Scientists (1):
>>
>> Obscured beneath a stock photograph of a smiling, disaster-ready American
>> family of four and the green check marks that dot every branded component 
>> on
>> the Department of Homeland Security's Ready.gov main page exists a link to 
>> a
>> disclaimer. "We are not responsible if information we make available on 
>> this
>> site is not accurate, complete, or current," the disclaimer warns 
>> visitors,
>> ostensibly the American public. "The materials on this site are provided 
>> for
>> general information only, and any reliance upon the material found on this
>> site will be at your own risk."
>>
>> Three years after its unveiling, Ready.gov, Homeland Security's supposed
>> go-to source for all things preparedness, is woefully unprepared. "The
>> average user going to the government site comes away flummoxed," says Ivan
>> Oelrich at the Federation of American Scientists. "Plus, many of the
>> instructions are plain wrong." In the spirit of scientific accuracy, 
>> Oelrich
>> and his colleagues created their own preparedness website--built in just
>> nine weeks, for the price of a domain name.
>>
>> To explore the private site filled with interesting and useful information
>> for individuals everywhere, go to:
>>
>> http://fas.org/reallyready/
>>
>> Eh... How many billions of public funds  have we spent on Homeland
>> (In)security so far?
>>
>> Ron D'Eau Claire
>>
>> (1) http://www.thebulletin.org/index.htm
>>
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