Disaster Preparedness: It's Not Just For Survivalists and Mormons Anymore

Statisticasaurus rex likes to remind me about Ready.gov, your one-stop shop for all your IZA/rage-infected-monkey/killer-robot-from-the-future/power outage/etc. needs.

Well, maybe not a one-stop shop...but a good place to start.

It really is a very useful site, and (as S. rex has made clear to me) being prepared is our civic duty. I've known liberals who were not wild about this kind of stuff, though it was hard for me to figure out why. Perhaps it smacks of right-wing survivalism, or perhaps they think that the idea is to stock up, lock up, and let the devil take the hindmost. But that's a pretty bad way to look at it. If you're prepared for a disaster, that's one less person/family that everybody else has to worry about. If the government doesn't have to worry about helping you out, they can spend those resources elsewhere. And if you're way prepared, you might even be able to take care of some other folks, too.

Ready.gov; philosoraptor says: check it out.