Are you prepared?

In the latest edition of Foreign Affairs is an excellent article by Stephen Flynn entitled “America the Resilient,” which gives his expert recommendations on how America should mitigate natural disasters and “defy terrorism.”

It’s a fascinating read from a well-known and respected expert on preparedness, and it should get every reader motivated to implement a sensible preparedness plan immediately.

The best way that I have ever seen to do this is through Joseph’s Storehouse, the “world’s first full-service preparedness and food storage company.”

I had a Joseph’s Storehouse rep come to my home to perform a free Emergency Preparedness Audit, a service to assess a family’s level of preparedness in home safety, emergency and disaster preparedness, and food storage. I was amazed at the level of depth and comprehensiveness of the audit, and it opened my eyes to how ill prepared my family is.

I’m not an alarmist, yet it only makes sense to be prepared for natural disasters, or other things spoken of by experts such as flu pandemics, terrorist attacks, and more.

Do your family a favor: Call Joseph’s Storehouse today at (435) 215-4838 and set up your free Emergency Preparedness Audit.

While you’re debating whether or not you’ll make the call, consider the…following statistics and excerpts from Stephen Flynn’s article:

“A report on disaster preparedness released in June 2006 by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security found that only 25 percent of state emergency operationsplans and 10 percent of municipal plans were sufficient to cope with a natural disaster or a terrorist attack; the majority of the plans werre deemed ‘not fully adequate, feasible, or acceptable to manage catastrophic events.’ And even as community and individual prepearedness is in decline, nine out of ten Americans now live in locations that place them at a moderate to high risk of experiencing damaging high wind, earthquakes, flooding, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, or wildfires.”

“An August 2006 stody sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security found that nine out of ten Americans believed that being prepared for emergencies was important. Yet a poll commissioned in the same month by Time magazine found that only 16 percent of Americns thought they were ‘very well prepared’ for an emergency.”

“The good news is that most of the things people can do at the individual level to prepare themselves, their families, and their employees are relatively easy. These measures include purchasing a three-day emergency kit, developing a family emergency contact plan, and visiting Web sites maintained by the Red Cross and other organizations that provide instructive what-to-do lists.

“Such efforts can provide real peace of mind and save lives when disaster strikes. They would also represent tangible expressions of American support for the U.S. soldiers who put their lives on the line beyond U.S. shores to protect a nation that today remains recklessly exposed to the consequences of a successful terrorist attack.”

Now do yourself a favor and call Joseph’s Storehouse to set up your free Emergency Preparedness Audit.

And while you’re at it, read this blog post.