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Hopper (Editor) PollY Wood (Office Manager/Associate Editor) 2012: A Year of Record Breaking Natural Disasters 20 TACDA 12162 South Business Park Dr., #208 Draper, UT 84020 Psychology of Survival www.tacda.org 21 By Jay R. Whimpey, P.E. [email protected] 14 TACDA Board Member Office: (800) 425-5397 Fax: (888) 425-5339 What Would You Do Without Toilet Paper? ISSN# 0740-5537 26 By Jonathan B. and Kylene Anne Jones . Homeland Security Parable 27 By Bruce Curley Social Media Lessons from the Joplin, Missouri Tornado 23 28 By Bruce Curley Protecting Fuel Supplies 31 By Ralph E. Lewis 2012 I SSUE • 1 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR s the current President of TACDA and a felloW am eXcited to join the TACDA team as the American citiZen, I haVe major concerns for the Wel - neW editor for the Journal of Civil A Defense . I honor Sharon Packer for her fare and securitY of our countrY. The turmoil in the Middle I manY Years of dedicated serVice. She Will con - East oVer the insurrection in EgYpt and the nuclear aspira - tinue to serVe TACDA in other capacities. tions of Iran to acquire nuclear Weapons are just tWo of the ManY of You knoW PollY Wood, Who faithful - threats We must address. The mission of TACDA is cen - lY remains the backbone of our organiZation tered on securing the safetY and Welfare for You, Your fam - and Whose talent is eVident in the journal’s ilY and the United States. I enlist Your interest and support for TACDA and final design. I am grateful to the amaZing Writ - its important mission. ers Who haVe donated their time and energY to bring You these qualitY articles. Without Stronger Sanctions, Iran Will Go Nuclear Please accept mY sincere apologies for the A recent article in the Wall Street Journal (TuesdaY, 13 August 2013) Was delaY in producing the 2012 annual issue. 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SincerelY, KYlene Jones Journal of CiVil Defense Editor 2 • 2012 I SSUE JOURNAL OF Civil DEFENSE Photo by Jason Persoff MD/stormdoctor.com Storm Doctor First Response Mode: A Storm Chasing Physician's First-Hand Account of One of the Nation's Deadliest and Most Destructive Tornadoes. Joplin, Missouri, May 22, 2011. By Jason Persoff, M.D. he first smells to sand blast their WaY into mY mY skull. Some insulation from a house or business car as I opened mY door against the norther - floated doWn neXt to mY foot, Which Was noW T lY Winds Was that of gasoline, kerosene, and soaked from the horiZontal Winds about the rear sWamp gas. The tornado lurked VerY close bY, the flank doWndraft. Off to mY right, a sole poWer flash unmistakable roar of Wind, rain, hail, and debris as the tornado moVed on. A resonant bass, deeper gnashed about the road less than a mile or so aWaY than sound, signaled the proXimitY of the tornado, from us, and the skY roiled in aVocado green. I but in its Wake it left Wind, rain, and a remarkablY couldn’t see it, but I could feel it and hear it inside intense staccato lightning and thunder, like a strobe STORM DOCTOR, continued light stuck in irregular leaping beats. drils of the tornado touching doWn, to I grabbed mY orange trauma kit I had forecast this target almost the point Where it became a ¾ mile Wide from the back and began to attend to tWentY four hours before, but just about Wedge of destruction took <30 seconds, the trucker on the off-ramp. The rain thirtY miles West of Joplin. I liked the something I’d neVer seen in mY chase had been torrential and the roadside Winds at the surface, the hint of a drY - eXperience. The tornado greW in siZe in Was a mass of Water. I took one step line, the ridiculous amounts of potential a WaY that Was faster than its ground toWard the truck and sunk mY shoe into energY Waiting to unleash itself on the speed. EXperienced chasers I kneW muck and sWamp Water. I could barelY atmosphere, and the WaY the satellite could not moVe out of the WaY fast Walk through the morass at the side of and morning radar shoWed a boundarY enough and some nearlY found their the road, let alone make progress up the just draped oVer the area, Waiting to stir liVes forfeit. SadlY, so did manY in the incline and Yet, seeminglY 100 feet aWaY up storms. The storms that formed path Who had become so used to hear - at an angle that felt close to 45 degrees, began to mutate and darken, red blobs ing tornado sirens and had learned to loomed a truck on its side. I couldn’t turning to purple and White on mY tune them out as false alarms. propel mYself up the incline, but Wind radar. The storms Were groWing larger As We crossed oVer the Joplin toWn had no problem taking a truck Weighing line, the tornado Was busY spinning tons up the same incline. 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