Disaster Preparedness Quotes

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.

Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.

Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.