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It's not too early to do a "lessons learned" about Hurricane Harvey's assault on Houston.<br />
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<b>1. &nbsp;Don't trust authorities to determine your course of action. &nbsp;Make the assessment yourself!</b><br />
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This one will rub many readers the wrong way but listen before you slam me. The local govt called for people in essence to "shelter in place". &nbsp;This was based on past experience of trying to evacuate the city. &nbsp;Long traffic jams, people running out of gas etc. &nbsp;Well look at the situation today. &nbsp;High water rescues and cars abandoned in the streets. &nbsp;The expense of just clearing cars off the street will run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. &nbsp;That's before you actually add water damage to buildings etc..Decide when you and your family should leave and act on that instinct!<br />
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<b>2. &nbsp;Prepping counts.</b><br />
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Some will say that prepping couldn't have helped in this mega storm. &nbsp;They're wrong! &nbsp;If a decision is made to leave and its done at the last minute you can grab your essentials and be out the door. &nbsp;If its done in a timely manner then you can save many of the irreplaceables in your home. &nbsp;Family heirlooms and such. Being prepared for emergencies means that when they strike you're better prepared to deal with them.<br />
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<b>3. &nbsp;Emergency funds count!</b><br />
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The news media is already descending on evacuation centers in Dallas. &nbsp;The tales of woe are being told and the stories are similar. &nbsp;We're looking at people without a dollar to their name being evacuated and now being herded like cattle in a mass refugee center. &nbsp;Better to have a fund set aside to spare your family that drama and then contact your insurance company so that you can recover what was lost in a timely manner. &nbsp;A hotel stay, stay with relatives etc is better than a center any day of the week.<br />
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<b>Conclusion.</b><br />
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Prepping works. &nbsp;Independent thinking works. &nbsp;Emergency funds works! &nbsp;Plan for emergency and you will deal with it much more successfully than will a person that has a normalcy bias and believes that since it hasn't happened it never will!<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Note. &nbsp;What I can't figure is how do you care for the sick and elderly in these type situations. &nbsp;Once again we've seen people in a nursing home left to their own devices. &nbsp;This is a wall punching constant and we've got to do better.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #990000;">My first thought is WHERE ARE THEIR RELATIVES! &nbsp;My second thought is why would authorities respond so slowly? &nbsp;This should be a priority rescue. &nbsp;I need to chew on this one before I can come up with a reasonable solution...what I do know is that it's not being handled properly today.</span></i></b><br />
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