Family Emergency Response Planning & Survival
Global Gator Guru (GGG) provides families and friends experienced advice on how-to-think (H2T), rather than what-to-think (W2T), about Family Emergency Response Planning & Survival plans and actions – FERPS.
FERPS is both an academic science and an art eliciting creative and critical thinking. Many aspects of disaster planning are a quantifiable science (Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) guidance, disaster kits checklist, evacuation plan checklist, etc).
On the other hand, the art of FERPS can be a potential skill bottled within you waiting to be tapped to create a plan how to keep your family prepared and safe in the face of emergencies, disasters, and catastrophes.
Thinking about the vast array of situations in which anything that can go wrong will go wrong – can be a daunting and overwhelming task to sift through. And you have a busy life. There is a vast array of great resources; however, funds, time, attitude, and support can limit a person’s ability and commitment to creating adequate plans to protect themselves and their families from different risks.
Family Emergency Response Planning & Survival (FERPS) is not just for fear-laden end-time catastrophes anymore, but for prudent, responsible heads of household interested in the protection of their families by ensuring adequate plans and rehearsed actions are in place based on a multitude of scenarios which are probable in today’s world.
“Do you have plans in place in case of any emergency?”
“Well, I don’t believe in that quack happy conspiracy stuff…”
“BOOM…on the radio, you just heard an event (natural or man-made) will likely hit your town. All power just went out, the phones are jammed, you have no backup water at home, and you realize you never taught the kids how to react in a given situation, you are 50 miles away stuck in traffic trying to head home from a long day’s work, your kids were probably on their way home from school…what do you do?”
This information is provided free to help with the pre-execution planning and understanding of H2T about FERPS through the adaptation of the Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP), which is a very complicated science and art of decision-making. I have simplified the process targeted to help you navigate easily and create a tailored plan for your specific situation.
Science, in one sense, can be considered as the study of the things God has made. Climatology and earth’s design contain scientific principles of disaster sciences. You have the ability to learn and employ the art of critical thinking to analyze and evaluate how to leverage this information knowledge management forum into a smart FERPS plan.
Other aspects are not so easily definable – the impact of your leadership ability, the complexity of a certain situation, and the uncertainty regarding actions to take in any given scenario – belong to the art of FERPS, and I hope this resource will help remove anxiety in the overwhelming process and help you PREP FOR GOOD…
FERPS Process Summary
R – Responsive
E – Emergency
P – Planning
F – Forum for Friends & Family’s
O – Optimal
R – Readiness
G – Global, National, or Regional
O – Overt, Obvious, or Covert
O – Origin (Natural or Man-Made)
D – Disasters
H – Head of Household (HH6) Estimate
A – Analysis of Life Operations