Disaster Prevention

     

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                              Learning about Disaster Prevention was super interesting as I don’t think I ever learned about it as in depth growing up. I think the only time I heard about disaster prevention was doing tornado drills in school with covering my head and hiding under desks or going in front our lockers. Now that I think about it, I don’t know why they placed us in front our lockers when they was nothing above us.  Seeing the Japanese videos with kids and people of all ages preforming these drills is super interesting to me. I think America only has children practice these, but I honestly don’t even know if they still do them to this day. It’s super impressive seeing work places even having a plan and being prepared. The workers even bring their own stuff to add to their kits that their work even provides. I definitely understand why America wouldn’t have the same amount of preparation as Japan would as we don’t deal with Tornadoes, Earthquakes, and other extreme weather all in one spot. Though I know when I was moving growing up and even moving here to the Midwest I didn’t know what to do in a Tornado till my freshmen professor told me. I think America has the standard that you learn whatever you need for the place you grew up in and nothing else. I think this is bad because a lot of kids do move or even travel, people will need to know what happens in a disaster. 

                             The way the buildings are structured is crazy to me, and how strong they’re. It astounds me especially with how much research went into finding out about why buildings fall and how to prevent it. The videos of watching them take the research is also impressive. With them making a smaller concrete scale version of a building and having it sit on a shake plant to gain information is crazy. It definitely is impressive to me how that still works the same on larger scales as it does on smaller scales. I definitely know that is something America doesn’t have. I know there were talks about it being a new idea in New York while I was living in Vermont, but ultimately they ruled it’d be too expensive. That’s where I feel America also will lack on things, if something is too expensive, they won’t do it.

                             The marketing for disaster prevention is crazy huge and I never knew it was that crazy. I was watching Laid Back Camp, an anime about camping, and they show a lot of camping ads and products that I saw in the disaster prevention videos. I also noticed in the videos they mention a lot of camping gear for disaster prevention. I think this may be because of how diverse and it’s made to last. I noticed that a lot of the items are also super compact, so that may also be why they’re so diverse with being used to camp as well.