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FEMA Demands Deployable Homes That Can Serve As “Permanent Housing” During Crisis
Agency wants up to 150 manufactured homes per week delivered “anywhere in the U.S.” The Federal Emergency Management Agency is looking to spend millions on manufactured homes that can be “quickly built and deployed” to
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As Hurricane Victims Freeze, Billionaire Mayor Gives Away $1 Billion to Wealthy Med School
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made headlines over the weekend with his announcement that he has donated $345 million to Johns Hopkins University. Added to his previous donations, the media baron has given
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New York City Government Slams Sandy Victims With “Failure to Maintain Property” Citations
Last week we reported that residents of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, were told that they had to demolish their homes or face heavy fines, after hurricane Sandy left their whole town a total disaster. Now
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10 Items to Stockpile Right Now
Even if you don’t fear economic meltdown, war, or tyranny, nature doesn’t care who’s in control of the government. At this writing it’s 12 days after hurricane Sandy struck the Northeastern United States, and
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Liberal media, White House owes preppers and survivalists a massive apology in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy
In the wake of superstorm Sandy, preppers are the new prophets. Those who failed to prepare are the new homeless. For as long as we can all remember, preppers and survivalists have been derided by
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How Will the Fed React to Sandy?
There’s already talk on Wall Street about the possibility of the Federal Reserve providing further monetary accommodation in response to the damage wrought by Sandy. With the Fed Funds target rate at zero, this could
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25 Additional Items to Have on Your Bug-In List
I'm on the tail end of Hurricane Sandy - we had high winds, freezing rain, and power outages but apparently my area's going to be slammed and it won't be safe to go out.
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What Hurricane Sandy Reveals About the Future of Preparedness
Hurricane Sandy has cleared entire grocery outlets of their essential items like water, shut off power from hundreds of thousands of homes, and incited gangs to call for the looting for local stores and
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Panic Buying Grips the East Coast: Mad Rush for Supplies Ahead of Mega-Storm
While many people are still trying to make up their minds about the potential severity of the storm threatening the U.S. northeast, it’s not stopping millions of concerned residents from racing to to grocery
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How To Prepare For A Hurricane? Some Lessons That Preppers Can Learn From Hurricane Sandy
If you are just starting to prepare for Hurricane Sandy, the truth is that you are already too late. Most of the essential supplies have already been stripped from store shelves. If
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Preparing for Disaster: Are You Ready?
September is National Preparedness month and government and local entities want to know if you are prepared for an emergency. Do you have an emergency plan? How about a emergency kit (and we aren’t
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How to Survive Any Disaster
Ever since Hurricane Isaac was rumored to hit the US, a lot of “How to survive Hurricane Isaac” articole starting flooding the Internet (pun totally intended!). And I sincerely salute this initiative, as it
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When Will The Next Nightmare Hurricane Hit The US?
Hurricane Katrina caused an estimated $125 billion in damages, making it the most expensive natural disaster in U.S history, and killed more than 1,800 people when it hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005. Exactly
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55 Percent Of Americans Believe That The Government Will Take Care Of Them If Disaster Strikes
If a major emergency happened in the United States, do you have faith that the government would take care of you? Amazingly, even after all of the examples to the contrary that we
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