President Obama advises Americans to obtain emergency kits
June 2016 – EARTHCHANGES – President
Obama called for every American to put together a disaster supply kit
and evacuation plan because climate change is bringing “more powerful
and more devastating” hurricanes to the U.S. – even though the U.S.
hasn’t been hit with a major hurricane in more than a decade. Announcing
the June 1 start of hurricane season, Obama warned Americans to prepare
for imminent climate change-caused hurricanes:
“All of us have seen the heartbreak,
the damage and, in some case, the loss of life that hurricanes can
cause. And as climate continues to change, hurricanes are only going to
become more powerful and more devastating. “One of the things that we
have learned over the course of the last seven and a half years is that
government plays a vital role, but it is every citizen’s responsibility
to be prepared for a disaster. And that means taking proactive steps,
like having an evacuation plan, having a fully stocked disaster supply
kit. If your local authorities ask you to evacuate, you have to do it.
Don’t wait.”
Obama chastised Americans for their
“complacency,” and told them to be ready to evacuate when the
climate-canes hit: “And what we’ve been seeing is some public
complacency slipping in; a large portion of people not having
preparedness kits, not having evacuation plans. We’ve been stagnant a
little bit with respect to the number of people, the percentage of
people who respond to an evacuation order. All that has to pick up,
because we want to make sure that, although it’s hard to prevent
property damage, that we are doing everything we can to prevent loss of
life.”
The president’s admonition is not just
restricted to hurricanes. Major volcanoes have been recently rumbling in
the U.S. Midwest, seismic unrest is growing in the Alaska region,
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa (the largest volcano on the planet) appears to be
awakening, the country’s major fault systems: The Cascadia Subduction
Zone, San Andreas, and New Madrid appear overdue for quakes, and the
Long Valley and Yellowstone supervolcanoes are still very much active.
There’s even an app to help Americans
prepare for the destruction to come, Obama said: “If you need
information about how to put together an evacuation plan, how to put
together a disaster preparedness kit, as Craig said, we’ve got an app
for everything now. We have a FEMA app in English and in Spanish to
help you prepare your family for a disaster.” Meanwhile, the U.S. has
now gone a record 127 straight months without a major hurricane making
landfall – and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) is predicting a “near normal” Atlantic hurricane season this
year.
For the past ten-plus years, “normal”
has meant no major hurricanes – even with the effects (if any) of
climate change – so “near normal” suggests the U.S. will remain safe
from climate-caused hurricane devastation. But, be prepared, because it
is coming, Pres. Obama warns. –MRC TV, TEP
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