Take a second right now and look at the clock. What time is it?
Imagine something almost surreal: in less than half an hour from right now, your home will be gone. It will simply not exist. Within less than 30 minutes, it will be obliterated, along with the trees in your yard, your car(s), and all your neighbor’s homes and cars and trees. And the screen you’re looking at right now, too. All gone.
Granted, that sounds far-fetched. But it’s exactly what just happened in Moore, Oklahoma. It has happened in California and Thailand and Mexico and Japan and yes, in Georgia. The reasons vary: floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, landslides, hurricanes, tsunamis, plant explosions, plane crashes, and more. Disasters can occur seemingly out of the clear blue sky with little or no warning.
What would you do? Do you have an emergency plan? A disaster kit? Do you know what to include in one? Here’s a link to some very useful information: http://www.ready.gov/. Click on “Build a kit.”
For a little motivation, relive what one family went through on what began as a beautiful clear sunny day. http://interactive.guim.co.uk/2013/may/dunalley/