First-hand accounts are excellent resources to build upon. However even these can be misapplied or misinterpreted. The fact is that every disaster presents unique challenges that are only fully understood in hindsight.
You do the best with what you have. Some intel is always better than none. Some people do nothing because they find or look for fault in all actions, some do the best research they can and do something.
You keep repeating that vague statement, that doesn’t explain what you are talking about.
After trying so hard to get you to explain your vague condemnation of prepping, I think I can call BS on you.
You won’t even let us know what kind of disaster you were involved in if any, you just keep mumbling that people should talk to us who have been through disasters, rather than seek other information.
Do you really think that most of those people in New Orleans are experts now?
So Kirkwood, you’re basically saying you’re the only one who knows anything?