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Linda Young Landesman, DrPH, MSW

Executive Board, American Public Health Association

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At age 4, I was introduced to preparedness when through the window I saw a tornado flying across the schoolyard toward our Michigan house. My father hurried my 1-year-old twin sisters and me to the basement where we snuggled under a card table, inside the corner toy chest. For a long time the wind roared, sounding like a train and enveloping the house. Our neighborhood was spared, but the tornado wiped out a community a few miles north. With no potable water for days, we drank bottled soda. My mother gave blood and assisted with the hundreds of victims. We . . . [Full Text]