Reading your title "We're facing a natural disaster..." it hit me that that is no longer completely true when it comes to things like hurricanes. While hurricanes are certainly natural, the increased intensity of the storms and the increased water damage we are experiencing are of our own making. As sea level rises and storms get wetter and more intense, all of the effects are magnified. Combine this with greed from developers, who want to cover all available land with buildings and pavement and you get things like Harvey, here in Houston. Now parts of the US are even seeing man made earthquakes due to fracking. Those are hardly natural. So I think part of preparing for these disasters is avoiding them by voting for politicians who don't deny science and don't want to sell out future generations for a quick buck now.