Be Ready Utah ...

The state of Utah has a great web site dedicated to Emergency Preparedness, called BeReadyUtah. A message from the Lt. Governor states:

"This site is designed to be a toolbox to ready you and your family for unforeseen events such as earthquakes, fires, floods, and even personal financial disasters. Be Ready Utah provides valuable information for individuals and families, public safety professionals, business and civic leaders, school administrators and volunteer managers."

Everyone can benefit from spending a few minutes browsing through the site:

http://www.beready.utah.gov/

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."