By Popular Request
The Personal Disaster Preparedness Planner
Is now available for everyone!
(When it’s a dark and stormy night, the power is out, and the computer is down,
you will need a hard copy of this planner)
Are you answering the wake-up call or have you shut off the alarm? Wake up calls have gone out to most of the world. They recently came to Haiti, Chile, Japan, china, and the Eastern coast of the US, as well as in the South. So many so fast some of us were saying, “what in the world?” And that is exactly correct – what in the world? What will be in my world?
I’ve recently heard the rumor that some of you even have your emergency or disaster scheduled on your calendar, or in your palm pilot or on your Ipod. Now that is really planning well! However, what I am wondering is if you are answering the call or shutting off the alarm and “snoozing” for a while longer? The wake-up calls referred to are, of course, the continuing series of natural and man-made disasters that are sorely afflicting the world.
As the anguish of others going through these disasters fades from the headlines and the nightly news, our resolve to do something about our own situation fades along with the reports. We quickly slip back into everyday living, lulled by the hope that if we don’t think about disaster it will never happen to us. After all, disasters only happen to somebody else in far-away places, right?
Let me share a page from my personal journal dated October 17 1989—Santa Clara, California.
“At 5:04 tonight I was sitting at my desk putting the final touches on a presentation to an Emergency Preparedness committee. I felt a strong jolt and raced for the bathroom doorway . . . and literally all heck broke loose. I had to force myself to try to think so I could figure out what to do next. Within 30 seconds there was no heat, light power, water, phones, or security. At least I’m alive. The reports on the radio are becoming more and more graphic as the aftershocks continue their unrelenting battering. As night and darkness descend it is apparent that the suffering is escalating at an overwhelming rate.”
- Barbara Salsbury
Best selling author Barbara Salsbury, a nationally recognized personal preparedness expert, is one of America’s leading authorities on self-reliance. As an author, the majority of her books cover the genre of personal preparedness. Barbara says that she has been able to write so much in the preparedness field because she is the visual aid queen of disasters. As the above quote indicates, she and her family have lived through many of the events that have proved to be research in action. This is one of the reasons that Barbara is so enthused to make her latest project the Personal Disaster Preparedness Planner available. Everyone can use this planner, whether you live in a mobile home, an apartment or a single-family dwelling. Over 40,000 copies of the Planner have already gone out and the requests for it are still coming in.
Barbara has created the Disaster Preparedness Planner, in which the concepts of being prepared to cope with the aftermaths of disasters that lurk in your future are outlined. Once again she has made helping you help yourself with personal preparedness a priority!
Mrs. Salsbury has designed this booklet to be used as a personalized disaster preparedness planner. It is intended to be a workbook, to not only teach, but to fill with your notes, lists, reminders, prices that fit your budgets, or any idea that might be needed to follow up on or combined with the information in the book itself, in order to make it work for you! In addition to principles and concepts, it contains charts and worksheets to be filled in and guidelines to be followed. In essence the entire planner is just that – a booklet in which you can create your plan of action to be prepared for that emergency lurking in the future!
The goal for this brochure is to help all of you realize how critical it is for each and every one of you or your family to assume the responsibility to be able to take care of yourselves for at least two weeks or more – just in case there is a disaster or crisis that affects your city.
One of the main reality checks emphasized in this planners is why the city, in most instances, will not and cannot come to an individual’s rescue. It is of critical importance to recognize and understand that there is not a knight in shining armor waiting in the fringes. But at the same time, there are specific things that can be done and prepared BEFORE the need arises, to make living through the aftermath of any disaster not only doable but something that every person can and should do. In the event of a major catastrophe, all available resources such as fire, police and public service personnel will be responding to the most critical instances and working to restore basic services.
Most people that have called 911 in the past have had a response from emergency personnel within five minutes. If a disaster does occur, those personnel will most likely be involved in other major incidents, with only limited services being available. The better prepared you and your family become, the easier it will be to cope with the aftermath of a disaster.
With the Personal Disaster Preparedness Planner you can make sure that you are able to do what you need to do, on an individual basis, to not only survive a disaster, but to be able to do so in confidence and calmness. This hard copy of the Planner, designed with you and your needs in mind, is the tool that can be used to accomplish that goal. It is a reality check loaded with solutions. A hard copy is critical since you most likely will be without power and the wonderful computer and Internet during an emergency!
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