Hello and Welcome. August is well underway, and I am way behind in writing. I do hope to do some catching up over the next couple weeks, but I’ll start off with our monthly inspiration.
“Failing to plan is planning to fail.”
This quoted is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but according to this Quote Investigator article “Quote Investigator: QI has found no substantive evidence that Benjamin Franklin employed this adage.”
I selected this quote because over the last 4-6 weeks we have experiences several system failures: electrical outages, internet outages, poor cell phone signals, a water main break which resulted in water shut off during repairs, and flooding in our community. Thankfully they were mostly short-term issues that didn’t have much negative impact on us, except for how flooding has affected our gardens this year. More about that in a future post.
All this has made me think about how well we are prepared if any of these things or another type of emergency were to happen long term. I find it scary how dependent we are on systems that so easily can fail us, and I always like to have a backup plan. Today I decided to revisit three posts that I previously published about preparedness.
Perhaps they will inspire you to look at how prepared you are for various types of system failures or other emergency situations.
Please feel free to share your thoughts.
Thanks for reading.
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