The Key To Disaster Survival? Friends And Neighbors

"It was a neighbor who knew that we had no idea of the realities of the Gulf Coast life,"said Aldrich, who is now a political scientist at Purdue University in Indiana. He "knocked on our door very late at night, around midnight on Saturday night, and said, Look you've got small kids- you should really leave."

The knock on the door was to prove prophetic. It changed the course of Aldrich's research and, in turn, is changing the way many experts now think about disaster preparedness.
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