Why would someone on Daily Kos make a group like this?
Simple, disasters happen. No amount of wishing and hoping is going to stop that. Until we can control the weather, Hurricanes, Tornados, Ice Storms, Wind events, Floods, are all going to happen. So will man made events - pollution spills, massive store house fires, de-railed trains, fires and economic downturns.
Since they will happen, it makes sense to take efforts to 1) prevent them, and 2) get yourself and family ready to reduce the effects of the disasters. We can't, as individuals do much about the first part. (yes, join groups that are trying to get laws changed and such)
But we can do a lot about the second.
This will be advice on getting read for a disaster, in a rational and realistic manor with out the paranoid "the black helicopters are coming to take your guns and lock you in a FEMA Camp" Bovine Fecal mater you see spouted to often on social media (more from he right, but from the left too)
More below the squiggle.
When I write "rational" advice vs paranoid advice, I mean like the following:
Rational: Assess the area you are living in, what kind of weather does it have? If you live in Ohio, having a Hurricane kit makes no sense, but having a winter weather kit in your car does. Just as someone living in California is going to have a plan for earthquakes, the person in Maine needs a plan for massive snow that traps them for several days.
Paranoid: The key element to understand the process that the USA will enter in the upcoming decade is migration. In the past, specially in the 20th century, the key factor that allowed the USA to rise to its colossus status was immigration with the benefits of a demographic expansion supporting the credit expansion and the brain drain from the rest of the world benefiting the States. The collapse of the Western financial system will wipe out the standard of living of its population and will develop itself in a cascade pattern with unprecedented and devastating effects for the economy. So to protect yourself, you need to be buying gold, more gold, and guns to protect it. *
From other writers i'm hoping that they will also follow the simple rule - list a reasonable problem and provide a reasonable (preferred cheep) mitigation or solution. If the solution can cover lots of events even better.
I plan on writing three or four such posts over the next two weeks. If you like them, share the ideas and please give ideas. I'm not all knowing, I don't face the same problems others face.
Thank you.
*actual quote from "US to lose 78% of population by 2025".