Shockingly, after the Sandy Superstorm… No wait, back up.

After the Hurricane Katrina debacle when former Director Michael Brown's ineptitude and inaction blazed across television, worrying more about his clothes looking good on camera and his Arabian horses than nearly 2,000 people dying from its onslaught, you'd – have – thought, after that, FEMA would have gotten its act firmly packed together quick-smart. Try to garner some degree of respect and dignity. Try not to appear like a floundering, bloated albatross tied to our wallets. You'd have thought that 9 years later FEMA would have action plans formulated and implemented. Communication would be perfected. Schemes for shelters, food, medicines and water would be solid. You'd think they'd have all this and more completed. You'd be wrong.

A December exposé reveals huge inaction. FEMA is still no further along in what they are tasked to do: coordinate disaster response.

This means, friends, disaster preparation is still in the hands of we, the people.

Former FEMA Director, James Lee Witt stated on Oct. 14, 1997 that FEMA can't do it all. It's up to the people. They knew 17 years ago they were in over their heads. And they have done nothing to rectify it.

Since then, disasters have ramped both in number and magnitude. According to a recent AP article,

"Over the past five years, the newscasts have essentially doubled the amount of time spent on weather and natural disaster stories. The time has more than quadrupled since the early 1990s, said news consultant Andrew Tyndall, who monitors the content of the broadcasts."

"There were three times as many natural disasters between 2000 to 2009 compared to the amount between 1980 and 1989. A vast majority (80%) of this growth is due to climate-related events."

Image courtesy of EM-DAT International Disaster Database,
Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters, University of Louvain.

To find that FEMA has not improved their severely lacking capabilities after these two mammoth head-banging disasters, in a Nation that is a Super Power, is beyond disgraceful. It's life-threatening.

People were so disgusted after government's too-little-too-late response in Katrina, pins, bags, bumper stickers, signs, t-shirts, stuffed animals, even baby clothes sported the heartfelt assessment: FEMA Sucks.

Don't expect improvement soon. Specialists state it may take FEMA another decade to complete their plans providing they find the motivation to do so.

Two other articles, US Families Prepare For 'Modern Day Apocalypse' and Australian 'Preppers' Explain Why They're Convinced a Disaster Is Sure to Happen and Show How to be Prepared, go hand-in-hand with the above. People are increasingly sensing that something is up, something is baring down. People feel it. They know it in their gut. People are uneasy – and preparing. More folks are purchasing long-shelf life food or doing their own food preps, storing water and medications, generators, pet food, yes – guns and ammo and the full array of what sustains life should a longer-term disaster occur.

Never mind that the first article still tries to paint people who act personally responsible and want to survive disasters in relative normalcy as loonies, they can no longer say we are a fringe element. Too many people are preparing… for something.

They and we are taking action – something government can't say they are doing. Well, maybe they are – at least for themselves. Check the following:

Why Is the Fed Hiring an "Emergency Preparedness Specialist Familiar with DHS Directives"

A few weeks ago, we reported that for some still unexplained reason, the US Treasury is ordering "survival kits" to its employees overseeing the federal banking system. To wit:

The Department of Treasury is spending $200,000 on survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system, according to a new solicitation. As FreeBeacon reports, survival kits will be delivered to every major bank in the United States and includes a solar blanket, food bar, water-purification tablets, and dust mask (among other things). The question, obviously, is just what do they know that the rest of us don't? MORE

NASA Scientist Predicts Food Riots, Mass Deaths and Super Earthquakes
Beginning 2015 Due to Extreme Cold 30 Yr Period

Related: Earliest Winter in Decades Sweeps USA

Thursday, November 20, 2014 10:24
Before It's News, original material from Newsmax

If you think the last few days of record setting snow and cold in parts of upstate New York is just a freak event, then you're not going to like what I am about to tell you. According to NASA Scientist/Climatologist John Casey that is just the beginning of what is to come during this next 30 yr cycle of extreme cold, which will be caused by an historic decline in the Sun's energy output that will impact the entire world.

If Casey is right, then not only will a mass number of the world's people die by freezing and starvation due to the extreme cold killing 50 percent of the world's food supply, but you can also expect super earthquakes, and more powerful volcanic eruptions across the globe.

Former NASA consultant, climatologist John L. Casey states 'a radical shift in global climate is underway, 30-year cold spell will strike Earth'.

With nasty cold fronts thrusting an icy and early winter across the continental U.S. - along with last winter described by USA Today as "one of the snowiest, coldest, most miserable on record" - climatologist John L. Casey thinks the weather pattern is here to stay for decades to come.

Photo: John L. Casey

In fact, Casey, a former space shuttle engineer and NASA consultant, is out with the provocative book Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell, which warns that a radical shift in global climate is underway, and that Al Gore and other environmentalists have it completely wrong. The earth, he says, is cooling, and cooling fast. 

And unless the scientific community and political leaders act soon, cold, dark days are ahead. Casey says the evidence is clear that the earth is rapidly growing colder because of diminished solar activity. He says trends indicate we could be headed for colder temperatures similar to those seen in the late 1700s and early 1800s when the sun went into a "solar minimum" - a phenomenon with significantly reduced solar activity, including solar flares and sunspots.

If he's right, that would be very bad news. Dark Winter posits that a 30-year period of cold has already begun. Frigid temperatures and the food shortages that inevitably result could lead to riots and chaos. 

Casey tells Newsmax, "All you have to do is trust natural cycles and follow the facts, and that leads you to the inevitable conclusion that the Sun controls the climate (HOLLY NOTE): This is something Stan has lectured on for two decades), and that a new cold era has begun." Casey is president of the Space and Science Research Corp., an Orlando, Fla., climate research firm. His new book debunks global warming orthodoxy. For more than a decade, he reports, the planet's oceans have been cooling. And since 2007, the atmospheric temperature has been cooling as well.

"The data is pretty solid," Casey says. "If you look at the 100-year global temperature chart, you look at the steep drop-off we've had since 2007. It's the steepest drop in global temperatures in the last hundred years."

Sources: www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/17324-global-warming-alarmism-melting-as-record-cold-sweeps-nation

www.journalgazette.net/article/20141123/EDIT09/141129785/1021/EDIT

au.ibtimes.com/articles/573371/20141120/solar-hibernation-john-l-casey-dark-winter.htm

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