Prepare for a disaster (or any crisis that could affect your area) no must be difficult or expensive. Don’t use these 5 potentially deadly excuses to endanger your family’s safety.
Note: This is a guest post from Jeff Anderson.
My friend Jeff Anderson has learned several “survival tricks” over the years.
Some come from his days in the military (believe it or not, preparing for disaster is very similar to preparing for combat missions!).
He learned some tough tactics when a devastating flood swept through his Texas town in the middle of the night, dragging a dozen local residents into a creek to their deaths, including two young children, clutching live with their mother.
Jeff vowed that day that he would do everything in his power to show people the real way to make a survival plan — and they wouldn’t go broke in the process.
You can also enjoy:
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In fact, Just 3 simple secrets to help you through any disasteryou can watch an introduction to Jeff’s free online survival workshop next week.
I’ll be sharing the link to register for this webinar next week, but I want to make sure you know it ahead of time.
It’s the same seminar that people all over the country love so much – as David W. wrote to Jeff and said:
“Hi Jeff, I never heard of you until it showed up in the email link and I decided to attend your workshop. Your presentation is great! Point, interesting and informative.
I have resent it to some friends and my three daughters. Interestingly, I also watched a completely different, longer video by The production, while rich in content, pales in comparison. Thank you for serving the country and for all you are doing now! “
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[Top 5] “Deadly Excuse” you might tell yourself…
It is called “catastrophic”…
…“fatal”…
… One “Monster Storm” Unlike anything the US East Coast has seen before.
Hurricane Florence is wreaking havoc on a devastating road heading straight for small towns up and down Virginia and the Carolinas.
Mandatory evacuation orders were in place in nearly all expected flood areas to allow people to seek safe shelter and get out of Dodge.
However, as usual, not everyone obeyed the evacuation orders – and…
Here are 5 reasons residents say, “No, I am no Evacuate! “—And the price they decide…
It’s not hard to find the “truth” from the stragglers who think they’re smarter than Mother Nature and decide to brave the coming storm.
In fact, after several interviews, here are the 5 most common reasons Why people didn’t evacuate before the storm:
#1. “It’s troublesome.”
I know I know…
Gathering extra food… Photo albums… Packing everything in family vehicles… Fighting for what looks like a “fast lane” of evacuation traffic to crawl at 3 miles per hour…
Who the fuck wants to go through this crap, right?
Also, as Tim Terman (a North Carolina resident) put it:
“Once you’re gone, it’s hard to come back to check on the damage. My home is everything to my wife, and physically I have the stuff of my life.”
I get it.
Leaving your “stuff” sucks.
#2. “We have a great plan.”
Whether it’s from experience with other storms or just confidence in their current supplies and options, many people are stocking up to weather this storm.
As one South Carolina resident put it,
“We’ve got things done. We’ve got a lot of supplies from Walmart, generators, so we’re happy. We’ve got our kits ready.”
This is actually a very common method – even for those No any plan.
then there is Stage 2 This so-called “survival plan”…
#3. “We’ll just wait. If things get bad enough, we’ll leave.”
Many have experienced storms in the past without serious damage.
Others returned from previous storms only to find they weren’t hit as hard as expected…but their homes were ransacked by the time they left.
That would make anyone think twice about leaving again, wouldn’t it?
As one SC resident continues…
“Of course we’ll be keeping a close eye on the forecast…so if anything changes, we need to leave, and if we have to, we’ll leave at the last minute.”
But then what, right?
These people usually also fall into the next category…
#4. “I don’t know where to go.”
Evacuations are by their very nature chaotic and chaotic.
Most people don’t think about where they would go if they had to leave their state or even just their local area.
Many towns don’t offer much help…
Emergency officials typically assign letters to evacuation zones for guidance — but most people don’t know which zone they live in and whether evacuation orders apply to them.
Some areas — like Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — didn’t have major highways connecting them to the outer areas, making the evacuation process slower and more chaotic.
Once that decision is made, nearly every shelter and hotel within a 150-mile radius will be fully booked — with few, if any, options.
But this is the first reason I hear the most…
#5. “I’m too old/disabled/used to leave.”
Many residents simply do not see leaving their homes as an option.
For some, this really isn’t an option.
The elderly…the disabled…people who can’t leave because they care for people who can’t travel.
Of course, there will always be some cranky “get off my lawn!” types that refuse to let nature take full advantage of them, right?
Now, compare these causes to the death toll…
About half of the deaths from Hurricane Florence came from local residents. over 60 and stay behind.
But it’s not just “old” guys……
A 3 month old and a 7 month old Parents from another family did not see evacuation with their young children as an option…they suffered the consequences of wind blowing trees over their children.
Still others think they have a “good plan” to stick with…
Like this couple prepared for the expected loss of power by buying a generator…and running it in their home until they Died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
See, natural disasters aren’t the easiest thing to prepare for for most people.
Most people don’t think about it at all until it’s too late.
Then there’s the cost of putting all the gear and supplies together for some “event” that may never happen, right?
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I hear you.
But prepare for disaster (or any crisis that could affect your area) no must be difficult or expensive.
Look, don’t make the same mistake so many other people make, just put things off “later”.
Procrastinators die.
Hate to be so blunt, but it’s just the damn truth.
be sure Grab a seat on my webinarI’ll be hosting next week, and let me show you the preparation shortcuts I’ve learned (hardly) over the years.
Prepare. train. survive.
Jeff Anderson
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