My beef with that article is that is again lays the blame at the FEDERAL government. What about the INDIVIDUAL? The feds have nothing to do with personal survival in a natural disaster. At best the state government should be watching, more appropriately it should be a local issue since natural distasters are usually highly regionally specific.

I also like how they single out the US for this. I'd LOVE to see what Europeans or the Japanese stockpile. If a New Orleans level event happened to Singapore, Hong Kong, or London, I suspect the death toll would be similar, probably MUCH higher.