Posted on 06/04/2016 9:12:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When Barack Obama speaks to the public, it is very rare that he does so without a specific purpose in mind. So why is he urging Americans “to be prepared for a disaster” all of a sudden? On May 31, Obama took time out of his extremely busy schedule to deliver an address at the FEMA National Response Coordination Center in Washington. During his speech, he stressed that every American is responsible for preparing for disasters, and that includes “having an evacuation plan” and “having a fully stocked disaster supply kit”. These are basic steps that I have been encouraging people to do for years, but if they won’t listen to me, perhaps they will listen to the man currently residing in the White House. The following excerpt from Obama’s speech comes directly from the official White House website…
One of the things that we have learned over the course of the last seven and a half years is that government plays a vital role, but it is every citizen’s responsibility to be prepared for a disaster. And that means taking proactive steps, like having an evacuation plan, having a fully stocked disaster supply kit. If your local authorities ask you to evacuate, you have to do it. Don’t wait.
This speech was timed to coincide with the beginning of the hurricane season, although hurricanes have not posed much of a threat lately.
In fact, a major hurricane has not made landfall in the United States for 127 straight months.
But without a doubt, we all need to be preparing for disaster. Hurricanes can create a short-term emergency that can last for a few days, but there are other threats that could create a major emergency that could potentially last for an extended period of time. That list of potential threats includes a major volcanic eruption, a natural or engineered pandemic, a west coast earthquake, a New Madrid earthquake, a tsunami on either the east or west coasts, a meteor impact, Islamic terror, war, an EMP burst that takes down the power grid, cyberwarfare, economic collapse, and civil unrest resulting in the imposition of martial law.
Of course the items that I just mentioned are not mutually exclusive. In fact, in different scenarios we could actually see multiple events happen in rapid succession.
It is interesting to note that during his speech Barack Obama also noted that the American people seem to have become very complacent about getting prepared…
And what we’ve been seeing is some public complacency slipping in; a large portion of people not having preparedness kits, not having evacuation plans.
This is exactly what I have been noticing as well. There appears to be a tremendous amount of apathy out there, and relatively few people really seem to feel much urgency to get prepared these days.
My contacts in the emergency preparedness industry have been telling me that sales are way down right now. There was a big peak last fall, but since then it is like interest in prepping has just fallen off the map.
Ultimately, those companies are going to be okay because interest will pick back up shortly as global events begin to spiral completely out of control. However, of much greater concern is the fact that people have not been using this period of relative calm constructively.
Just like we have seen in Venezuela, time to prepare eventually runs out. And someday there will be millions of parents that are absolutely horrified when their children come to them crying out for food and they don’t have anything to give to them because they didn’t heed the warnings and they didn’t get prepared.
When that day arrives, many of those families may be forced to turn to whatever help the government is offering at the time.
One more thing that I found particularly noteworthy about Obama’s speech was that he said that there is now “a FEMA app” that can direct you to the nearest “FEMA shelter” in the event of a major emergency.
If you need information about how to put together an evacuation plan, how to put together a disaster preparedness kit, as Craig said, we’ve got an app for everything now. We have a FEMA app in English and in Spanish to help you prepare your family for a disaster. You can update the National Weather Service alerts. You can get safety tips for more than 20 kinds of hazards. It provides you directions to nearby shelters.
Could you envision yourself and your family having to take refuge in a “FEMA shelter” someday?
If not, you should do what you can to get prepared now. Over the next couple of days, my wife and I will be releasing a couple of new videos about preparation on our YouTube channel. In fact, I just checked and the first one is already up…
Unlike Venezuela, it looks like we may still have a little bit more time to prepare for what is ahead. Some people will relax and use this time to party, but those that are wise will work diligently and will do what they can to get ready for the exceedingly challenging times that are rapidly approaching.
Hopefully you are listening to the warnings and are heeding what the watchmen are saying.
If not, the consequences for what will happen to you and your family will ultimately be on your own hands.
Obama’s the biggest “disaster” America has ever seen.
because by asking such a question he implies that we haven’t been living through an historic Distaster these past 7.6 years
please pray for America that we survive the rest of this krap and are able to repair all the damage he’s inflicted on the American people
Obama desperately wants it to “hit the fan”.....
Why didn’t he tell us this in 2008?
Martial Law of course...
Maybe he is planning to cancel the elections to “avoid a disaster” and he is working his way up to it.
I wouldn’t put it past him.
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Americans need to prepare for a disaster because Imam Hussein is preparing us a disaster. It will be a disaster of such magnitude as to require the importation of millions of Moslems from ISIS areas of the ME and Somalia.
Yes, he has, but he wants the whole country in an uproar...
I truly believe he wants a war to break out in the country...
Trying to warn us as to a Hillary presidency?
Report to the train yards to be evacuated to safety. Bring only one suitcase, you won’t be staying there long. Have a nice day!
Various reports recently seem to suggest that a major earthquake may be imminent on the West Coast. If one occurs, Obama and the Dems do not want to be blamed for lack of public warning. And do not discount the burden of even short-term discomfit. Based on experience with hurricanes in Florida, I can attest that even a few days in the summer without electric power is miserable, and many households have someone who is especially vexed due to illness or age. A “small” earthquake in LA might kill a few hundred outright and then thousands more due to heat stroke.
We’ve already lived through eight years of a DISASTER..having Hitlary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in the White House would top that disaster and make it a catastrophe
A feckless fool on a hill will continue to be a “feckless fool on a hill.”
I believe an attack on Obama’s watch would help get Trump elected. We don’t have the shrinking violet leftist Romney who will go hide in a corner if any US interests are harmed on 9/11, ala Benghazi.
For the first time in a long time we have a candidate with testosterone who will make sure to tie an attack to the laissez faire MO of this administration when it comes to dealing with evil.
” There’s always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT! “
I heard that Fort Hood has been having training exercises for disasters recently. Could be routine though but it might mean something given O’s statement
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