"Blondie, are you implying that the main reason they are now suggesting that disaster preparation is a good idea is because they lost some paperwork." I do know from elders in that area, had no idea how to contact people in their congregation before Hurricane Katrina. Thus when the written records were gone (and not backed up or available) some jws seemed to fall through the cracks, moving to all sorts of places, family, etc., to get back on their feet and that had no way of find who or where. Few jws had not prepared, like many non-jws had not done. Some jws even thought that their god would protect them from such things especially in the US. The WTS is an organization of records, knowing where the majority of jws are, how to find them and make sure they are toeing the WTS line. It was different then, so many years after Katrina, few jws know how it was or even if they lived then, have forgotten how bad it was. I can remember how many times an elder would call me and ask how they could contact "brother" or "sister" so; and I would say, don't you have that information. How can you say you are paying attention to the flock as your bible says? "The line I heard before Katrina was "god will provide." I wonder where their god was then. Yes, it was not until Katrina, the WTS realized that they needed to educate their "flock" to "prepare." Yes, the WTS said in the past there was no need to "prepare" for the chaos of the "great tribulation."
