Monday, March 31, 2008

Emergency Preparedness ... Natural Disasters ...

I am planning a series of posts in the coming weeks on a variety of Emergency Preparedness topics that I hope will be useful to everyone. For starters, the following list shows the number of reported world-wide natural disasters in each decade since 1900:

  • 1900-1909 ... 6
  • 1910-1919 ... 18
  • 1920-1929 ... 11
  • 1930-1939 ... 17
  • 1940-1949 ... 20
  • 1950-1959 ... 23
  • 1960-1969 ... 43
  • 1970-1979 ... 85
  • 1980-1989 ... 148
  • 1990-1999 ... 232
  • 2000-2007 ... 540
I will let you draw your own conclusions! As for me, I am taking the advice of a wise person who said "If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear."

1 comment:

anya said...

Hey, that was the theme of our mutual activity last week... "if ye are prepared, ye shall not fear". I like it! Looking forward to the coming posted about emergencies!