Why Do People Panic Buy Toilet Paper In An Emergency?

Hoarding We’ve all seen it. Whether in person or in film. Something bad is happening or going to happen and people rush to the stores and load their carts with—- toilet paper. As if that’s a priority. After all, we die after three days of no water. But toilet...

Stop Thinking Someone’s Going To Rescue You

What Interstate 95 looks like on Tuesday morning with drivers trapped for hours. (Courtesy NBC Washington) Dawn comes this day with thousands of drivers trapped in freezing temperatures on I-95 in Virginia. A number of circumstances collided to produce this; one of...

We’re Living the Opening Of A Disaster Movie In Slow Motion

Disaster Movie Killer tornadoes. Killer Heat Dome. Unprecedented Drought. Texas Freeze. Killer hurricanes. Floods. Record heat waves. The poles melting. And, oh yeah, two years into a pandemic which shows no sign of abating. Roll the credits. And the producer and...

The Hillsborough Soccer Crush

Hillsborough Soccer Crush This is excerpted from The Green Beret Guide to Seven Great Disasters “There was no organised response there at all… There was nobody in charge, no plan, no organisation at all… There was no resuscitation equipment there…...

Crowd Crush is not a Stampede—Understand the Danger

Hillsborough Disaster A recent tragic event at a concern in Houston bring home the danger of being in a crowd. People want to blame those who were there, but I reality, crowd crush kills people who no longer have control over their situation. I researched a terrible...