A New Year's resolution to be prepared for emergencies is simple - and could save lives

FEMA ‘Resolve To Be Ready’ Campaign Gets Support from Pastors, Preppers

By Christian Newswire
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

With the holiday season upon us and 2011 fast approaching, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is encouraging all Americans to make emergency preparedness one of their New Year’s resolutions for the coming year.

Throughout the rest of December, FEMA will promote Resolve to be Ready in 2011, a nationwide effort to urge individuals, families, businesses and communities to focus on being ready and aware of all the hazards that exist in their communities.

Thomas Horn, CEO of www.SurvivorMall.com supports FEMA’s national readiness effort.

Horn, a semi-retired minister considers himself a reasonable man with a well-balanced outlook on the future.

But since September 11, 2001, Horn has been stockpiling emergency supplies and encouraging others to do the same.

“Following 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina it was abundantly clear that it is dangerous and even naive to expect government agencies to swoop in to save everybody in the event of a major emergency,â€