I can not tell you how much so many people NEED to HAVE IT HAPPEN TO THEM to get the message. There is SO much denial. I have seen people INSIST that they'll be ok.... Some of them are CO WORKERS! I'M A MEDIC!!! Emergency prep, response and mitigation are what WE DO! They still refuse to see.

Friends/neighbors that needed those heat packs...etc. They get it at least on the surface. The real 'fight' is convincing them to 'continue'.

We recently dealt with IRMA. We were prepared. Still...we did not foresee the flooding we had gotten. Yes we know about flooding and hurricanes..... this was INLAND. Highest points in the county. Why'd it flood? Combination of things. Biggest... human error. Local Gov't employee failed to open a drainage gate. Literally 38 inches of water in front of our house. We were restricted to the house itself and maybe a 20 x 20 area of 'grass' in the front and a narrow walkway around it for 4 days. Have we learned? OH YES! We now have contingencies just in case. We prepared as best we could and did decently. There was an obstacle we had not foreseen. Those things will pop up but overall we were good.

Still some neighbors STILL aren't 'seeing' it may happen again. "Oh that'll never happen again..." That's what we hear. Some people just refuse to see.