Why is Barack Obama Warning Americans ‘To Be Prepared For A Disaster’?

Director Blue ^ | June 4, 2016 | Michael Snyder

[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.

[ResisTyr]

Thank you for your detailed reply 👍

[3D-JOY]

I have only recently heard about them. No research started yet.

I bet cost is high and like dehydrators you get great differences in time needed and volume per batch. Get what you pay for?

It is a new area for home use...I think I will let experiences and reports by users be my guide...later.

Commercial canned goods are about 2018 now and dried products just need cool and dry storage to last a long time. I can fruits and tomatoes and freeze some vegetables after blanching but the electricity for long storage is not a good bet in time of trouble.

Sorting by date and meal plan, then using it as it approaches “use by” works for me...I buy on sale for storage, and use from my own supplies first. This means I will have familiar and favorite foods. Most of the 25 year foods will be too highly seasoned for me to enjoy, but I have them too.

Can you imagine any gardening that will be helpful in case of no fresh produce? Seems to me everything would be stolen before it matured. Maybe lettuce and other fast growing things that could be in Pots inside screened area...I do not imagine myself armed and guarding crops as people have had to do in the past.

[3D-JOY]

I have been preparing for a long time now.

Occasionally I have to give to food banks before the end date and I have over supplied...but not often and a good thing to do.

I do get long-winded sometimes...see the reply to syncro just above this!!!

Good luck getting PREPPED!

[ResisTyr]

Thank you Joy! I’ll be looking for more of you posts for more tips & tricks ;)

[Syncro]

Long storage in a chest style freezer is pretty economical if it is full to the brim.

My garden is in the back forty (that's 40’ : > ) which is fenced in and locked.

I have several “plots” on the back deck which is covered with clear roofing for sunlight.

I can put up temporary walls with wind shields made for pop-up. They are forty foot lengths.

It keeps the warmth in during the winter months.

I have a couple of tomatoe plants that have stared filling out again. Tomatoes [quail spelling...) will grow all year, most people think they are annual plants.

Probably because they freeze in the winter and die.

Char grows all year around outside, does well in winter.

All my herbs I grow on the deck. Mint is in the garden as its pretty hardy. Spreads like wildfire though but the new areas where they are not welcome are the areas to harvest from.
For tea with lemon balm leaves so no lemons need to be bought for tea.

Relatives have lemon trees anyway, so they are almost always available. (If they are not home...JK they have more than they can use.

I have arugula growing on the deck, no lettuce yet. Had lettuce last year, all year around. Just harvest some outside leaves and it keeps producing more and more.

Gotta keep them from going to seed.

My kids have smokers for fish etc.

Hunters with bow and arrow, always seem to have venison around.

And one raises hogs.

Grandson venison, bow and arrow

[uncitizen]

Isn’t it something that we even have to ask why obama would be telling us to be prepared? If a normal president did that we wouldn’t suspect him of planning to hurt us in some way. We would just think “oh yes, I should get more prepared.”

[greeneyes]

Me too. We have one in the main kitchen-reverse osmosis for the tap water from our well. We have the ones we bought for emergencies stored along with replacement parts etc.

[ResisTyr]

Does your reverse-osmosis filter remove fluoride?

[Joe Marine 76]

“Load and Lock!”

[Carthego delenda est]

“Does your reverse-osmosis filter remove fluoride?”

I had an under the sink unit that I bought specifically to remove the high trace mineral content in my well water including fluorine and arsenic. It was made by Whirlpool and had three different filtration canisters. It worked very well until one winter when I was gone for an extended period, there was a fairly long cold spell, and the canisters froze, swelled up, and split open.

[Titan Magroyne]

Oh dang - major suckage! :-p

[3D-JOY]

Prepared an equally long reply...ZIP and it disappeared. I don’t see it posted, will search!

[sneakers]

Bump

[greeneyes]

I can’t remember. We got the best one that Lowe’s could get. We don’t have fluoride in water here. Some area’s have had some lead contamination in the soil, but not in our subdivision.

Still, I did make sure that it would remove lead.

[Bitsy]

the rest of this krap and are able to repair all the damage he’s inflicted on the American people

And most people are too ignorant to see it or refuse as in the case of blacks. Even though the man is a total fraud and is white as well as black. But, he plays the black thing to the hilt.

[faithhopecharity]

He pretends to be American too

[The Duke]

Perhaps certain considerations are dictating the end of the money-printing that has been keeping the economy on life support(?)