Preparing children for disasters is building a 'disaster resilient society'

On 13th October, as I went to chase the cyclone PHAILIN that was supposed to cross over the mighty Hirakud Dam's reservoir, Khushi, my ten year old daughter, said she would accompany me. She had thought a cyclone would be like a tornado as seen in Discovery channel. And, obviously was very much disappointed with just dark clouds, rains and mild winds. In fact, PHAILIN changed its path and later we realized it moved by the side of reservoir with a very less intensity. However, Khushi caught me up with lot of questions and has stirred up, innocently and unknowingly, a lot of thoughts in my mind over natural disasters. Are we really making our children educated about these disasters? Are we making them prepared? Are we not just involved in preparing them not to face disasters? Many more thoughts actually.... 

I realized, we need a child's innocence, an adult's quest and a community's action to build for us a 'disaster resilient world'....