How Stuff Works: Emergency Preparedness
By Marshall Brain 
If there is one thing we saw with the Japan earthquake, it’s how quickly the world can go from “normal” to “complete disaster.” After the earthquakes and tsunamis struck, many people in Japan were thrown into quite primitive conditions: no electricity, no telephone service, no medicine, no clean drinking water and no shipments of food arriving because the roads were gone. Hurricanes can bring the same kind of destructive force across a wide area. So can volcanoes.
If your city were to be struck with a large-scale disaster, would you and your family be ready to handle it?
That’s where emergency preparedness comes in. The basic idea is...[read more...]
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