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3 September 2005A little advance planningI suspect this was in the works long before Katrina, but it's here now: a twelve-page booklet issued by the state Department of Health, with the imprimaturs of the Department of Emergency Management and the Office of Homeland Security, dubbed the Family Readiness Guide: Plan, Prepare, Be Aware. The booklet contains helpful hints for anticipating evacuations, government contact points, a wallet card upon which you can list emergency information, a list of documents you ought to try to protect (including computer backup media!), and other useful bits of information. I got my copy in the Sunday Oklahoman, scattered among the two or three dozen ad pieces; other papers in the state will presumably be carrying it also. Posted at 6:34 PM to SoonerlandThis was probably first printed back in 99 in anticipation for Y2K. Also, the Mormons have been doing this for years. But so have the survivalists & folks are always laughing at them, right up until their belly growls. Posted by: Dwayne "the canoe guy" at 10:39 PM on 3 September 2005Well, it says, per the usual state spec, "900,000 copies were printed by McCormick-Armstrong Co. Inc. in August 2005 at a cost of $139,500." And certainly we didn't have an office of Homeland Security in 1999 — at least, not one identified as such. But this is indeed pretty much old news, at least to some of us. |