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Commonly Held MYTHS About Disasters

"It won't happen." OR "It won't happen here." OR "It won't happen to me."

"It won't be that bad."

"I'll be alright through whatever happens."

"I can't do anything about it anyways."

These are some of the false beliefs or "myths" that people believe about disasters.

Most of these beliefs are some form of denial of the possibility of bad things happening to good people.

I felt like that during my first day of skiing back when I was in junior high school. I would see people fall and get hurt and think, "it won't happen to me." However, later that day, it did happen to me! I fell down and ended up with a 5 inch spiral fracture. As I cried in the severe pain, I looked up the hill and there was no one coming down the hill at all. I had to wait for the next skier to get help. It took a long time before the rescue team came and got me and took me to the ambulance and on to the hospital. All the while I kept thinking to myself, "Why me?" "Why did this happen to me? These kinds of things always happen to other people, but not to me. I don't understand. I can't believe this is really happening to me!"

Now, for the myth that it won't be that bad. Try telling that to the people who experienced the fury and flooding aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Try telling that to the people who died on September 11th in New York City. Try telling that to the tsunami victims in Asia or the fire victims in San Diego. If you were to talk to some of the people who survived these disasters, you would find that it really was that bad. It was much worse than they had ever imagined possible. The myth, "I'll be alright through whatever happens," just isn't true. People died. People drowned. People were burned to death. People who survived were not alright, they were severely traumatized and their lives were forever changed.

Now, for my favorite myth: "I can't do anything about it anyways." This is simply NOT TRUE! There is a lot that you can do to prepare yourself and your family, and even your neighbors, for what is coming. For one, you can prepare by storing up long shelf-life food and water. You can set aside extra clothes, first aid kits, camping and cooking supplies, etc. in order to be able to survive a major disaster. You can also talk about emergency preparedness with everyone in your home, and even with your neighbors. You can create a special disaster kit and add to it every week when you're out shopping. You can keep some extra cash tucked away and some extra fuel for heating and cooking. You can have an out of the area contact to use if your family gets separated.

There are a lot of things you can do to prepare to survive the coming disasters. The first is to give up your false "myths" about disasters and get out of denial. Second, you can start preparing yourself and your family for what's coming next. This blog will seek to offer you a lot of resources to help you prepare for the coming disasters, so please stay tuned and keep checking back to this website. Mark it as one of your favorites and subscribe to our RSS Feed.

Remember: the secret to surviving disasters is BEING PREPARED beforehand! Not next week, not next month, not next year, not when you have time, not when you think something bad is going to happen - but NOW.

Keep checking back with my postings as I will be providing you with a lot of more useful information and resources to help you get prepared now for the inevitable disasters on the horizon. You do not need to live in fear and anxiety - IF you're prepared to survive and overcome through whatever disasters strike next. BE PREPARED!

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