Archive for October, 2008

The Market is NOT the Message

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Do you think that the bump upward in the stock market means everyone should forget about preparing for an emergency? Certainly I don’t. Apparently many people do. It is kind of amazing. We can see the relative number of people who are concerned about emergency supplies by looking at the stats for this website.

The results have left me with my eyes wide and mouth open… do people really think that emergency situations depend on the stock market? Yes, they do, if our stats are even vaguely accurate. Although there have been a number of very kind people who have gone out of their way to thank us for our site, there was a (more…)

Beginnings

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

DisasterEmergencySupplies.com is meant to be an ever-changing site whose purpose is to give people a very personal view of how to prepare for an emergency or disaster, and give you some links where you can look at possible supplies. By ever-changing, I mean we intend to expand it as long as we have the ability to write it.

Emergency preparedness is such an incredibly large subject. To get this website up and running, we have started with some basic elements. We much more in the works. But if everyone did only this much, the people of our nation would have such a better chance of making it through the initial traumatic phase of a catastrophic event. We could also weather local emergencies - which will surely happen in many places during this year - far better than if we do not prepare. At least in my opinion.

And everything in the site is just that… our opinion. You have to decide for yourself if (more…)