Of interest & Links: FAS’ intern site on Preparing for a disaster

Last year I blogged about being prepared for a disaster. Tonight a reader sent me a link to on boingboing’s entry on the new ReallyReady web site (created by a summer intern at the Federation of American Scientists) which “beats the Department of Homeland Security’s ready.gov site.”

“The Federation of American Scientists hopes to achieve two purposes with ReallyReady.org:

• To provide clear and correct information to citizens interested in preparing themselves and their families for an emergency


• To persuade the Department of Homeland Security to take a serious look at Ready.gov and their policy on the accuracy of information and to make important changes that will help Americans to prepare for terrorist attacks or natural disasters.”

I have to agree: it’s clear, concise and easy to understand. 

There are links to three sep sites: ReallyReady America, ReallyReady Business and ReallyReady Disabilities (self explanatory).

I also like their really useful links:

• RAND Corporation: Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks: http://rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1731/index.html
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Emergency Preparedness and Response: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/
  
• American Red Cross: Disaster Services
  http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_319_,00.html
  
• FEMA: Are You Ready? http://www.fema.gov/areyouready
  
• National Academy of Engineering: Fact Sheets on Terrorist Attacks
  http://www.nae.edu/nae/pubundcom.nsf/weblinks/CGOZ-642P3W?OpenDocument


• National Organization on Disability: Emergency Preparedness Initiative
  http://www.nod.org/emergency
  
• Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco: http://www.ilrcsf.org/Publications/prepared/index.htm 

Tags: preparedness, earthquake, disaster.