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The most effective preparation for the next storm could be a healthy dose of fear triggered by lingering images of this month’s disaster.
“A lot of it is just members of the public taking seriously that it can happen,” said Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, who toured stricken areas. “You get a little more convinced each one you see.”
“Part of what saved lives here was there are people who are experienced and who have thought about what to do when there is a tornado,” Chertoff said Thursday after a tour.
“When they give out tornado warnings, if this doesn’t put you in the mood to listen, I don’t know what will,” a reporter said, looking at a relative’s ruined house in Lafayette last week. “When they say take cover, you take cover. And you pray. And make sure you have an emergency survival kit with you. You never know if your home will be nothing more than a concrete slab”
“It happened so fast,” she said, adding she didn’t know whether sirens would have caused her to react differently.
“It’s human nature not to think it’s going to hit you,” one observer said. “I think we’ll all take the next one more seriously.”
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