Tipping Point

TippingPointSo here’s the thing.  You can preach about having great plans, great training, great response time.  You can do whatever is fiscally responsible, physically and mentally capable in your hands.  But where does it sometimes fall apart?  When the tools or infrastructure you’re given or have to work with are in disrepair, outdated or don’t even exist.

So where is my comment coming from?  As we’ve all witnessed many areas around the globe are getting hammered with extreme weather and other naturally occurring events.  Unfortunate for many local, regional, provincial, state or federal governments they have not done enough pre-planning over the years to recognize certain trends and react accordingly.  Why?  It costs money, it doesn’t win votes, it create deficits, generally people just might not be happy with the decisions.  Well they’re not happy now their home has been washed away, basement flooded, lives lost, life savings and sentimental keepsakes destroyed.

How are you or others expected to respond to an emergency or disaster when the initial tools that you may rely upon don’t work?  You’re behind the proverbial eight ball.  You are playing constant catch up.  The opportunity to go from response to recovery is delayed.  The cost of damages or even loss of life increases as you quite frankly respond to the uphill battle.

So what’s the answer?  The obvious answer is – things need to change.  We need to stop saying that we’re managing the event as best as we can.  Let’s be honest.  Our infrastructure is outdated.  If you don’t want this to happen again we need to invest in upgrading.  That’s going to cost money.  Yes.  Taxes may go up, user fees may be implemented.  Smarter design needs to be initiated, agreed upon and used.

I don’t have all of the answers.  What I do know is that there are so many innovative solutions out there to be implemented, there are thousands and thousands of great ideas wanting to be used.  Some are yes more expensive than others.  We’re at a tipping point.  Is the cost of not  implementing a solution more valuable than the losses that are created from not implementing the solution?

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