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.
Michael Snyder is a disaster monkey clown who has books to sell.
All your SHTF preps won’t help you against the real scenario coming down the pipe.
Get right with Jesus now!
Very true. They’ve spent over seven years consolidating all power in the executive branch and will try to keep it by any means necessary. We may be in for a long ‘hot’ summer. Democrat (July 25th-28th) and Republican (July 18-21) Conventions will be telling as to how far they’re willing to go to incite civil unrest as a prelude to martial law. Their paid thugs and useful idiots are already ramping up violence at Trump rallies. Keep your eyes and ears open folks.
What was happening at polling places in 2008 will look like child’s play.
The turds will literally hunt down and kill the first voters they see wearing Trump gear (or simply “white people”) early in the morning. They’ll go stage violence in places heavily for Trump and shut down voting there. Then the media will be blasting it all day to scare voters.
We must be ready for this!
Ramadan 2016
June 5- July 5
How would you know where Obiwon spends his time? And that doesn’t change the Earth’s orbit through the torus of the rocks.
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I found a great spot about 200 yards from the entrance to my polling place. After I vote, I’ll be on overwatch.
Interesting. Some of the Book of Revelation material sounds like a description of our planet passing through a debris field with all sorts of stuff raining down on just, the unjust and Chicken Littles alike.
It's kinda funny, but in times past when trust in GovCo was higher, the president telling people to have supplies and a survival plan in hand would be accepted and appreciated as just good, common sense.
The President is supposed to do things like that.
Nowadays, anytime Barry and GovCo offers up some good, common sense advice, we immediately don't trust it and instead look for their ulterior motives.
Nowadays, distrust of GovCo and looking for their ulterior motives is accepted and appreciated as just good, common sense.
We, the people, are supposed to do things like that.
Huh...well, what do you know. ^That^ is actual progress in spite of the progressive's indoctrination assimilation transmogrification.
Maybe there's still some hope for US after all.
Book of Revelation - distant memory of 12,600 years ago when the last rock from that formation hit ... ending the Younger Dryas which was started 1000 year prior by the rocks from the same formation - and a warning to the future - now and the next 24 years.
Being prepared, even for the small stuff, is the best insurance you can have. If you rely on other people for your food, water, shelter, etc., then you have too much faith in the wrong places, bro. Six months worth of stored food and a reliable water source (oh, and guns) equals pure peace of mind.
Personally, I think the gummint knows something that they aren’t telling us. (No shit, huh?) There are plenty of scary theories out there, from Yellowstone blowing its top to Iran lobbing an EMP strike at us to Planet X swinging through the inner solar system. No matter what ... something wicked this way comes. You can almost smell it in the air.
I don’t for one second think Obummer would give us good advice. He means us ill, both as a people and as a nation. So why tell us to prepare for bad times? What is his angle here? What lie is he feeding us?
“It’s like déjà vu all over again.”
Story says sales of prepping supplies have plummeted; people seem to have stopped prepping, after a peak last fall.
Huh. Interesting.
We don’t need no stinking preps. Vote Trump!
Trump’s gonna save us!
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
The youngsters will have a really really fun time ...
King Opie is 7½ years too late.
The disaster started in January 200p.
Barry Soetoro knows the planned collapse is coming and wants lots of food sequestered in private homes so the government can send one armored vehicle in to collect what the EBT drones will need to remain a viable chaos force. People the size of some of those EBT users have enough stored fat to survive uncomfortably for weeks, but eventually they will need your stored supplies to survive as the future worker drones for the new world order ... the oligarchs know you and I will not bow to their commands, so the fools living on EBT dole are the obvious alternative and they must be fed something and you and I have stored “it” away fro the gov’t to collect ...
The anti-American pResident is manipulating USS to store for collection what the government cannot put aside enough of to feed the EBT shills and drones.
Now that caught me off guard and made me laugh.
Are any of those people who talked about the bathhouse times still alive?
OTOH, maybe Obama is reading his TelePrompTer, delivering (on May 31)
pretty much the same canned speech that he, and ** every ** president, gives **every** year at the beginning of hurricane season (June 1.)
Everything Obama says is not necessarily sinister. Some stuff just falls into the routine requirements of the Office.
The reality is, FEMA really does want you to have your own plans and preps for disasters, because FEMA is nearly broke. Every family that fails to prepare, and subsequently must be rescued by teams of first responders, is using up valuable taxpayer resources, and furthermore endangering the lives of the rescuers.
Prepping for hard times —whether a societal collapse, natural disaster, or job loss—is something wise people should do, regardless whether the government tells you to, or not.
Some here mention planting a garden. Very wise. Gardeners know too much rain, or not enough, can result in the destruction of a year’s crop. That’s why canning and dehydration are just as important as plowing and planting.
Grasshopper or ant—which will you be?
If you take advice from Obama and not from your FReeper FRiends I think you are woefully behind the curve and unprepared to even catch up on information.
“Store canned goods. They last 25 years or more.”
How do you know this to be true? Manufacturers say they only last about 3 years, hence the stamped expiration dates.
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