Areas that Might Benefit from Strengthening: In the Wake of Fort Hood and Mud Slide Disasters

Many commendations must be given for the amount of success and progress for the levels of safety and peace, that we here in the U.S. currently have. Generally speaking, national headlines have not spelled out disaster at a high frequency within recent months, a very good sign.

Albeit, the U.S. every now and a then has been struck with events of tragedy, both under the will of man, and acts of nature which are harder, however, not necessarily impossible, to control.

Steps that can be taken to mitigate the amount of the tragic outcome is surely in process. Briefly, here are a few comments:

• Mud slide rescue technology
Emergency rescue vehicles especially designed for mud slide disasters

With global climate changes, and ozone layer depletion, glaciers may be melting, pushing warmer waters to correlating areas, slowly, as is the nature of large bodies of water movement as it appears, however, the force of these waters is extremely powerful, weighing in the tons per units of areas, and hundreds of them. Mud slides and other events, such as sudden dropping of land masses, floods, large animal invasions, precipitation causing increase in intensity of storms, might be in the realm of possibility.


• Are structures like mud dams and levees, like the ones that were to protect from Hurricane Katrina, going to be necessary?
  
  
• More elaborate and comprehensive warning systems for imminent mudslides. Emergency exit strategies and drills, just like for fires.

Historically and generally speaking, coasts are a line of defense, from just about anything that could head inland, including natural disasters.

The west coast has vulnerabilities as demonstrated, in the areas that include but not limited to:

• wildfires
• floods
• mudslides
• earthquakes

On the Atlantic coast, proportionate types of natural disasters have occurred, and might change over time.

Looking at the outlying border areas further still, are Texas, reference at least 2 serious shootings at Fort Hood, one of which occurred within past few days.

Are there ethical dilemmas that not need be, that have raised tension in a state known for history such as cowboy legends, and events among them 'Juneteenth', commemorating Civil War soldiers, many of whom are credited as the ancestral fathers of thousands of Americans through honorable marriages?