If your emergency contact management plan fails you will learn that prayer and disaster go together. It’s better to have a plan BEFORE the disaster.
I recently came up with 13 natural disasters that call for having an emergency management planning infrastructure in place.
The list of man-made disasters is much longer.
5 Reasons for Man-made Disasters
- ignorance – It’s your fault. You didn’t make it clear that I was supposed to …
- unawareness – I didn’t know I was supposed to be watching that gauge, too!
- illiteracy – I couldn’t make sense of all these pictures and the instructions were confusing.
- carelessness – I was watching the game when suddenly I heard this big BOOM!
- intentional – I will show them who’s the boss.
All of the following man-made disasters need to have an emergency management plan in place.
All of the following disasters have happened this year. And, it’s only February!
20 Man-made Disasters
- Terrorism – Denmark and Paris each experienced separate terrorist attacks.
- Civil Disturbance – A man was shot in Missouri. The neighbors, um, rallied around to show their support.
- Hazardous Spill – A private school in New Jersey was evacuated because a custodian spilled sulfuric acid.
- Power outage – Arkansans lost power due to winter weather. Yeah, it does get cold in the south, too!
- Disease breakout – Ebola doesn’t just happen in Africa anymore.
- Murder – A North Carolina man shot dead 3 Muslims.
- Stampede – Blue Light Special in aisle 6
- Explosion – chemical, nuclear, mine, pollution, acid rain. In Philadelphia, apartment residents were sent into the bitter cold.
- Pipeline burst – A pipeline running underneath the Yellowstone River in Montana burst.
- Gas Leak – North Miami Beach was closed due to a gas leak.
- Oil Spill – Trains derailed in Ontario and West Virginia causing a crude oil spill
- Transportation Disruption – railway, shipwreck, car, bus, truck, maritime, aviation
- Shooting – Las Vegas road-rage shooting of a mom.
- Raid – Hackers raided $1B from a bank.
- Engineering failure – of course things break!
- Fire – Barn fire killed 20 pigs (animals) in Baltimore.
- Massacre – Columbine teens planned to massacre ‘Jew’ with ‘Nazi’ friends in Illinois.
- Tunnel disasters – A Virginia-bound train stalled in a tunnel.
- WMD – Some dude in Germantown, PA was arrested for possessing WMD!
- Chemical spill – A ruptured pipeline sent millions of gallon of wastewater in North Dakota.
If we don’t suffer from a natural disaster, we have man-made ones. The above list is by no means comprehensive.
20 Disasters in 6 Weeks
That list is just the number of disasters in the first 6 weeks of this year.
Important to ask is, “Do you have an emergency management plan in place?”
If not, why not? If so, are you sure it will work?