Imagine an EF-3 tornado the size of your state, tearing clear across the entire length and width of it for 8 hours, in addition to the storm force winds that preceded and tailed it for almost 48 hours, two weeks after being hit by another one. How do you prepare for that?
by having emergency workers onhand, trained electricians on hand, food and water and medicines stored in safe facilities for immediate distribution afterwards- There’s lots that could be done to prepare- They did not prepare, and expected the US to come to their aid and fix everything after they failed to do so. They live in hurricane prone area- One would think they would be prepared for disasters such as this- Yet All they did was blame the US afterwards-
“Imagine an EF-3 tornado the size of your state, tearing clear across the entire length and width of it for 8 hours, in addition to the storm force winds that preceded and tailed it for almost 48 hours, two weeks after being hit by another one. How do you prepare for that?”
You put a lot of stuff underground. You build safe storage areas. You have a lot of backup generators in safe storage. You have a lot of water purification systems in safe storage. You have a lot of MREs in safe storage. You make sure all of your hospitals have working backup gensets that are protected.
You know what the threat is, so you can certainly prepare for being without food, water, and power for long periods.
It’s really not rocket science.
You could store a lot of emergency equipment on ships and move the ships around when necessary to keep the equipment safe and ready to be brought back for emergency use.
Individually?
You build a dome home with concrete exterior and ballistics resistant windows. Have a generator with 30 days of fuel, food for the family for 30 days, and the ability to filter water.
Have I done that? No, because I cant afford that. So on to plan two.
Plan two - couple of acres in the mountains with off grid power and water a couple hundred miles away. Almost there, I still have to get the well drilled next summer.
While Trump was ridiculed by some for saying PR is an island surrounded by water, he should have explained that there were few ports, damaged cranes, and storms still at sea for several days after Maria passed on. Also, Google “Images of Maria in Puerto Rico” to see hundreds of devastating photos of what happened everywhere. It would put the link myself, but my computer is acting funny.