Desi Anwar
*) Senior journalist Desi Anwar can be contacted at www.desianwar.com and www.dailyavocado.net

THE series of earthquakes and other natural disasters that are coming closer and closer to home and at an ever greater frequency leave me to wonder if we will ever be truly prepared for emergencies of any type whatsoever.

With the slowness of response at the recent Sumatra earthquakes, the lack of coordination and the general failure in pr