FEMA Course Question?

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as I feel just as passionate. It is not my field but living in Florida, I'm always amazed that people choose not to be informed. There is so much information available, put out by the state and each county, each spring before hurricane season each local TV station reports on this ad nauseum, and people still don't pay enough attention and then they want to scream at the government for not taking care of them.

I'm thinking about taking these courses, just like Marianne202, even if they don't count, just to be even more prepared and more aware of the effects these events may have on the community and how to protect my loved ones.

You may find this interesting, in general. As a native Floridian, with the family having moved to S. Florida in 1919, generations have lived through many hurricanes, as well as my uncle talking about "the day the water rose," which I later found out the mud dikes/barriers around Lake Okeechobee broke and in Miami (going back to the 30s or 40s) they did not know what happened due to lack of communications, only that it flooded. Also, the land that is now considered prime, water-front or beach front property, we were raised that only "crazy northerners" would ever live there. I hope that by now you have a smile on your face. This meant that over the years, the crazy northerners got rich and we stayed safe. Sometimes you wonder who was correct, until you lived through a Hurricane Andrew and when you went down to S. Miami where it hit, and saw the office buildings and condominiums as just skeletons with nothing left in them, homes with trees sticking out of them, forests that then looked like a giant kid poked large tooth picks in the ground -- then you realize safety wins.

Judy