West Virginia Chemical Spill Sheds Light on Need for Self Reliance

With all of this terrible business in West Virginia regarding the chemical spill from Freedom Industries, it gets increasingly clear that we are unprepared for many types of disasters and accidents. In my town, NYC, we come to a crawl when there's heavy snow, let alone if we were to be faced with something REALLY unexpected and life-threatening. 

 

The fact that we encounter these so called "unexpected" things may be the problem. I am reminded of a saying that tells us to "expect the unexpected", which in turn would assume that we should also prepare for the unexpected. When we take a step back, we see what we already know; which is that we are terribly unprepared, yet don't put in the extra effort to take proper precautionary measures.