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If I were to tell you that disasters are good, would you believe me?
I believe that even though we do not like disasters for obvious reasons, there is a positive side to disasters that is often over looked. To a very large extent, I believe that disasters help us in at least three different ways:
The Positive Side of Natural Disasters:
In 2008, more than 80,000 wildfires burned through 5.5 million acres in US, according to the National Inter-agency Fire Center. Well over 900,000 people were forced to evacuate in one way or the other. There is no doubt that those wildfires wrecked havoc in various communities.
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Last November, I gave a talk on the power of storytelling in emergency preparedness to emergency managers at their annual conference in Kansas.