U.S. Report Faults Nation's Preparedness for Disaster

States and cities in hurricane zones generally have better plans to deal with disaster than do other regions, but the nation's overall level of preparedness is still far from sufficient, a new report by the Department of Homeland Security says.

For the nation as a whole, the report rates only a quarter of state emergency operations plans and 10 percent of municipal plans as "sufficient" to cope with a natural disaster or a terrorist attack. That is the highest of the three ratings defined by the analysis, above "partially sufficient" and "not sufficient."

from the NY Times