[FReepaholic]

Disaster prep rule #1: GET OUT OF THE CITIES!

If you live in a major city and think it would be different than New Orleans, you're wrong.

[RedBeaconNY]

Disaster Prep Rule #1.1: Rely on the government for NOTHING. That way, you won't be disappointed.

[AntiGuv]

Well, I live out in the wilderness these days, am pretty much stocked up for Armageddon, and my 'neighbors' taste like chicken. =)

[Bon mots]

Advice: Go to a white or Asian neighborhood. Really bad hurricanes and floods only hit black neighborhoods.

(Yes, I know that NO wasn't directly hit.)

[Free Baptist]

It was brought up last night on clear channel radio from Nashville, that is, the hundreds of school buses that were submerged in water, along with hundreds of other government pooled vehicles under water. And where were the city's transit buses? This was with a category 5 hurricane barreling down on the coast. We are wondering why the mayor didn't have these buses removed to a location well northwest of the projected storm path. It seems he had plenty of time to do AT LEAST that, and nobody would have argued with it. These vehicles would then have been available for evacuation purposes.

In fact, many of those buses could have been carrying elderly, invalid and crippled, and many of the hospitalized people out of the storm's path long before landfall. The predictions were in.

We ALL must return to a biblical faith in God, and reject the ideas even of the Freepers who want to establish Darwinian evolution as the new established religion of the government school systems. By the way, if there is no God (and He must be a God of creation and superintendence of that creation), then we have NO rights. The INALIENABLE rights we claim to enjoy are granted by God, and our founding fathers never objected to this being documented from our very founding. If there is no such Creator, as mentioned in our Declaration of Independence, then what we do have are only privileges that are granted by human civil government; privileges that can be altered, infringed, denied and removed.

A biblical faith (not a civil rights movement-style faith) must be followed by a rebuilding of our trust in the God of the Bible (in Jesus Christ) through a return to knowledge and love of His words, repentance from selfish and licentious life styles, and seasons of humble prayer...actually talking to God.

A biblical faith will most certainly lead believers back to the development of strong family units, which is the divine order of things. New Orleans is a city openly tolerant of those that would destroy the divine order for the family...the sodomites (that means, homosexuals). Quit asking us (whoever it is that might be asking us) to be tolerant of deviant sexual life-styles and of those who flaunt and parade them in our streets.

The entire needs to stop its reliance on the federal government, and it is time to keep all resources at state and local levels from the very start. No funds should go through Washington, and then have to be requested to be returned to the states in times of disaster. The funds necessary to take care of New Orleans should never have been in Washington to begin with; they should have been immediately available in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The first thing is that if you've got 25 years to prepare for a disaster that has a 100 percent certainty of arriving, you take advantage of your time and prepare. You don't hem and haw and play politics with the situation.

How much longer before the terrorists get a nuke?

[afraidfortherepublic]

Excellent. And you could go one step further. Contact a Mormon friend and politely ask about their preparedness plans regarding non-perishible food storage and preparation. You might learn a lot.

[Buzwardo]

When some dimwit local politician tells you to evacuate to a large civic structure where you are promptly disarmed before being cast into lawless and abominable conditions, ignore him.

[SandRat]

Excuse me if a little of this comes across as hard. This is meant for those that will have to plan for the next one and the Politicians who will Pollyanna the planning while they blame everyone except themselves for the abysmal preparation for this one.

Step One: Go one the web and Google for NEO Plan, or NonCombatant Evacuation Order. Build your plan UP from that. Then Have Community NEO Wardens, make sure they know the NEO Assembly area and the NEO Egress routes, inspect your citizenry for NEO Kits, Practice the Plan and Practice, and Practice, and Practice.

Step Two: Acquire 50 fully operational WWII DKWs or DUCKS if there are none then find something comparable. Don't know what a DKW is? Search for it on the web the education will do you some good.

Step Three: Amend the State Constitution so that the Gov can declare martial law in the state

Step four: When you issue a "Mandatory Evacuation Order" mean it and enforce it.

[dfwgator]

Never again trust a Democratic-controlled state and local government to not make a Charlie-Foxtrot out of things.