Organize for Disaster: Prepare Your Family and Your Home for Any Natural or Unnatural Disaster by Judith Kolberg

The world is a more dangerous place than it used to be. Organize for Disaster: Prepare Your Family and Home for Any Natural or Unnatural Disaster advises readers to prepare for disasters as part of everyday life instead of as an urgent event in the heat of the moment. Organize For Disaster closes the gap between awareness of the need to prepare and actual implementation by providing organizing tools for disaster preparedness such as shopping lists for purchasing disaster provisions; storage ideas; sample plans for communicating, evacuating and escaping; checklists and tips: they are all here in one ready-reference. First-hand accounts of disaster survival and advice from disaster experts makes the book a good-read'. There is a What Children Can Do section, and Organize for Disaster is current with information about terrorism as well as natural disasters.

"There is no way that you can be 100% prepared for every disaster, but if you read this book and take it's advice you stand a better chance of saving your life and the lives of your family. Disasters don't just happen to other people. They can happen to you. Buy the book, read it and learn from it. It could save your life", advises Jone Scott of the Oklahoma Salvation Army. "Using common sense and taking a few precautions can save your life and the lives of those close to you. Kolberg's book provides guidelines for doing just that -- protecting yourself and your loved ones. It is just a matter of getting organized" comments, Dr. William Waugh, Jr., a disaster expert and author of Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disaster.

A skillful interviewer, Kolberg has captured the stories of disaster experts and of average people who have survived disasters making Organize for Disaster a good read as well as a great reference. The publication date is March, 2005 but pre-publication copies will be available January, 2005.The book is approximately 160 pages and is 7 x 9, contains an extensive index, resources, a one-page view of disaster preparedness actions, and the Appendix contains forms needed for planning for and coping with disaster.