Preparing for Disaster: Learn to Improvise!

Many Americans believe that it is important to prepare for earthquakes, tsunamis, blackouts, wars and other disasters:

Earthquake in Mexico City (1985), Public Domain image

Atomic Bomb (test explosion) -- Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001, Public Domain image

After a disaster, there are not enough police to watch all the streets, so some bad people will go to stores to steal almost everything. Below is a Winn-Dixie store that was looted. After a hurricane in 2005, angry people went inside to take what they wanted without paying.

CC--BY-NC-SA Dan Iggers (September 9th, 2005), 'Looted Winn-Dixie' 41787648_ef88ff12f6.jpg

This is why knowing how to improvise is important. When they don't have something important, people who know how to improvise can use other things.