Texas and Lebanon seem to have little in common, being tens of thousands of miles apart. What they do share, however, is elected officials in two different disasters ignoring issues that were known to be dangerous — and yet they postponed taking any action. $$$ is many times the root of all inaction.
See this
Disaster Zone blog post I wrote for
www.mrsc.org as part of my monthly contribution to their efforts to educate their members.
Washington state has a seismic safety ticking time bomb that pretty much everyone ignores. Oh well, what could possibly go wrong?
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
