It seems that you cannot watch television or turn on your computer without seeing floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, fires or terrorist attacks happening all across the world. These threats can take devastating tolls on communities. In everyday life you don’t think something like that can happen to you or your community. Just look at what happened in 1998, a category five hurricane devastated Central America. Within hours, minutes, and even seconds, everything a person has and knows could be gone. It is estimated that hurricane Mitch killed more than 11,000 people, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without homes and causing billions of dollars in damages (History.com, 2009). As the local emergency manager I am asking for funding to implement new
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Adam Rose, professor of geography. "Currently, the grants we studied, if extrapolated to all FEMA grants over the 10-year period ending in mid-2003, would save over $14 billion." If we can save more money later by spending less money now it only makes sense to fund a proposal for a new disaster mitigation plan for our community. Can you imagine the lives, homes, and money that could have been saved if mitigation practices were in place in Central America before hurricane Mitch? FEMA indicates that: “Mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. In order for mitigation to be effective we need to take action now—before the next disaster—to reduce human and financial consequences later.” Let’s not wait for disaster to happen because then it might be too late to save lives. Now is the time to commit to making our community disaster
Adam Rose, professor of geography. "Currently, the grants we studied, if extrapolated to all FEMA grants over the 10-year period ending in mid-2003, would save over $14 billion." If we can save more money later by spending less money now it only makes sense to fund a proposal for a new disaster mitigation plan for our community. Can you imagine the lives, homes, and money that could have been saved if mitigation practices were in place in Central America before hurricane Mitch? FEMA indicates that: “Mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. In order for mitigation to be effective we need to take action now—before the next disaster—to reduce human and financial consequences later.” Let’s not wait for disaster to happen because then it might be too late to save lives. Now is the time to commit to making our community disaster