Welcome to Week 35 of Step by Step Survival. In this series, we aim to prepare you and your family for emergencies starting from just $5 a week.
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It’s good to see more shows about emergency preparedness in the mainstream media. At most, it provides some awareness and educational value. At worst, people who know better (like us) have something to make fun of.
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It’s hard to believe that it has been 5 years since Hurricane Katrina. Has anything really changed since then, in regards to institutionalised disaster preparedness? There’s still kinks to be worked out in the system. In a speech at Xavier University on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Katrina, US President Obama vowed that his administration would “put an end to the turf wars between agencies, to cut the red tape and the bureaucracy” that he said had been obstacles to the region’s continued recovery.

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Welcome to Week 34 of Step by Step Survival. In this series, we aim to prepare you and your family for emergencies starting from just $5 a week.
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