{"id":5487,"date":"2019-09-06T05:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T09:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=5487"},"modified":"2019-09-06T07:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T11:14:09","slug":"fri-sept-6-2019-you-are-not-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/09\/06\/fri-sept-6-2019-you-are-not-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri. Sept. 6, 2019 &#8211; you are not alone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Cooler, but humid.\u00a0 [75F and 96%RH]\u00a0 End of summer weather in Houston. Super hot by late afternoon though, hit 109F in my driveway yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Dorian continues to wreak havoc and destruction as it heads up the coast. The pictures out of the Bahamas are of devastation. 70K displaced people is a LOT for that area.<\/p>\n<p>================================================<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, FEMA tracks preparedness in the general population, and it has been increasing.<\/p>\n<p>This graphic summarizes the 2018 survey results compared to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/prepping_survey.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/prepping_survey-300x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/prepping_survey-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/prepping_survey-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/prepping_survey-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/prepping_survey-1200x669.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/prepping_survey.png 1912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Estimates from the 2018 NHS suggest that an increasing percentage of the American public are actively preparing for disasters.<\/p>\n<p>57% percent have taken three or more basic actions to prepare. That\u2019s eleven percentage points higher than last year\u2019s estimate.<br \/>\n94% percent have taken at least one action to prepare.<br \/>\n67% percent of adults have set aside some money for an emergency, although most have set aside less than $500.<br \/>\nWhen focusing on areas at higher risk of certain disasters,<strong> residents in areas at risk for hurricanes are most likely to have taken preparedness actions<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the story yourself at <a href=\"https:\/\/community.fema.gov\/story\/FEMA-Releases-2018-National-Household-Survey-Results-on-Individual-and-Community-Preparedness?lang=en_US\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/community.fema.gov\/story\/FEMA-Releases-2018-National-Household-Survey-Results-on-Individual-and-Community-Preparedness?lang=en_US<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prepping is going mainstream. There may be hope yet.<\/p>\n<p>n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Cooler, but humid.\u00a0 [75F and 96%RH]\u00a0 End of summer weather in Houston. Super hot by late afternoon though, hit 109F in my driveway yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Dorian continues to wreak havoc and destruction as it heads up the coast. The pictures out of the Bahamas are of devastation. 70K displaced people is a LOT for that area.<\/p>\n<p>================================================<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, FEMA tracks preparedness in the general population, and it has been increasing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/09\/06\/fri-sept-6-2019-you-are-not-alone\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Fri. Sept. 6, 2019 &#8211; you are not alone&#8230; &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prepping","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}