"HURRICANE RECOVERY/THE PEOPLES' VILLAGE PLAN -A BOOK REVIEW

By Gordon S

July 4, 2008

Book Title:

"Hurricane Recovery/ The Peoples' Village Plan"

A Planning Guide in Story Form

Author:  Gordon Swanson

Publisher name and Address

      Author House

      1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

ISBN:  1-4259-2716-5

       9-781425-927165

Price:  $10.75

Date:   2006

Page Count: 115 - 9" x 6" Full Color Trade Cover

Genre -Non-fiction Hurricane Planner - Self Help Book

Dedication: This book is dedicated to all those sufferers from disasters such as Katrina, plus all the other disasters nature produced all over the world.

Reviewed by: Gordon S

      This review is bias to the extreme because it is being done by the author. 

      I am not just reviewing this book but trying to get all you fellow chatters involved in preparing for the soon-coming hurricane season. The need to help people is why I wrote this book.

      The Peoples' Village is a prepared recovery area that is always in storage and ready to move to a disaster and take care of all the peoples' needs. A full village consists of a self substaining circus type unit that can be moved within a day to handle approximately 1000 survivors within the space of a city block. Like blocks it is easy to expand to hold whatever the disaster requires.

      This village is complete with medical, personal care, kitchen, dining facility, relaxation space, and sleeping facility that provides for family together accommations so no one is separated. Pets are also cared for with the concept. Police, Fire, Communications, and all utilities are included, plus locked enclosure for automobiles because they will not be needed during the recovery process.

      The village not only takes care of the minor needs of the survivors, but is adaptable for schools, churches and recreation areas. The people are able to live as they normally do, and work is provided work for everyone that is able. The cost savings that this village provides should allow the administration to pay a wage to the workers that will help them during the recovery period.

      The plan I developed is based on people learning to join and work together. It eliminates the one owner sitting on his or her door step crying because they do not know how to repair their damaged home, and have too little money if they did. The plan places many people on recovering the damage on each home. It is done in easy steps that anyone can do.

      Open this guide and see what a future meeting with the mayor and his recovery team is like after the plan is put into action. Continue by joining my wife, pet dog Heidi, and myself as we live through a recovery experience from being saved to having a rebuilt house to live in. Each story is backed up by detail plans for designing the Peoples' Village and putting it into action so a person can read it, understand it, and take it to the planners to make it work.

      Now this is the first part of this plan. The rest discusses the need to build damage-resistant structures that can withstand high winds and blowing rain.  We have all the knowledge to build this type of structure and it is time that people insist on getting more for their money when building their new home.

`     There is more on how to prepare the city for disasters so they can take care of their people.  This plan is for the people and leaves the businesses to work out their own methods. It does demand some of the recovery money for the people first instead of waiting for any left over by the government after getting the tax areas back into shape.

      You should purchase this planning guide, read it, and put it into action by setting up an action group in your area to go forth to the administration and push them to put you, the people first, in their next disaster plan.

      Between each chapter, I have inserted a short story of how people can live and work together and all be friends putting aside all differences for the good of all. Looking to the future, I envision stored villages in or near cities or towns world wide sized for their needs. A disaster would move the nearest villages to the site for immediate recovery of the people. Arrangements would be made to pay the use of the village by the users or the government such as FEMA.

      As an experienced teacher and lecturer, I am making myself available to work with any group that needs my assistance via the media or within my local area. With your help we can make disaster suffering a thing of the past.

Gordon S (Recovery man)

Fellow Author of "Soldier Pigs/When Soldiers Are Guinea Pigs" and "Hurricane Recovery/ The Peoples' Village Plan", and long time chatter.