I've added a trigger icon here as yes, this is a rather strange and unsettling post to make on a social forum for chit chat about home and garden stuff. Most members here deal with daily health problems, and come to this section to relax and "get away from it all" a bit

Here in Florida, we too have preparedness kits and plans for storms.

Anything can happen anytime in this crazy world, but I am not sure I want to live in that level of alarmism personally...if it gets that bad..........beam me up!

DS and I were just doing what we do last summer when Earthquake out of Virginia hit and no way had we expected anything. No damage but for a few seconds we were like WTF?????? In a flash he found a report on FB of what had happened. DD was in Richmond, but on a bus when it hit and felt nothing (buses do their own shaking). But like any mom, I was so worried when the cell towers went blank and I couldn't reach her for hours. DS and I felt the aftershock too, she slept through it. I think she got mad we felt more of whole thing than her.

If the unimaginable happens, hope we go out in the first act and don't linger.

That is really what I was thinking, what you said. I wouldn't want to be one of those left behind. I do pray kicker that mankind is smarter than that. ginnie

Ginnie,
We have a pool full of 55000 gallons of water, squirrels, some freeze dried food, alcohol, woods, and some party records. Bet we make 2 weeks. BUT what 2 weeks!

I can't engage in a certain activity because of the laws in my state. So I don't. But a book I read, said if that lousy stuff ever happened, light the bud, and just sit right down. I read alot kicker, in fact I am a nerd that way. I read On the Beach by Nevil Shute written in the 50's and One Second After by William R. Forstchen, several others too. I would be a burden in my medical condition, so I would sit right down! That is why I really don't worry about anything except a hurricane. I sure will be booging out of town, as I am on a barrier Island. Anything else, I would not be running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I'd invite all my friends over to site right down with me! ginnie

Party at Ginnie's house!!!!

Most people who garden are the self supporting type .. this is what my post addresses. This is also a site for non Nuro .. which is why I put this post here. Perhaps you need a new category. I am concerned that so many fragile people seem to be the last to see "whom" is going to suffer the most in a world wide "bump" in the Eco System. How anyone can absorb the daily news of wars, earth quakes, murder, rape, pillage and think this falls in the Alarmist category is quaint to me. Perhaps you don't have a grand son in Helmand Provence.

G'day friend.

I was the first to reply to your original thread. I feel I need to reply now.

I wish your grandson a safe return home. I do understand your concerns and fears.

Your post was unsettling to me. I guess the words "war", "ICBMs", "riots", "no infrastracture" tend to be unsettling as surely you would understand.

I had a father who was a POW on the Burma Railway for almost the whole of the second world war. In fact my father was in the ditches in Singapore being attacked before Pearl Harbour was attacked. He survived. Well, I guess you call it survive. He made it back here after those years so I guess that was survival. Here I am. I keep surviving because of him, a man I never knew. I don't want to prepare for ICBMs, frankly because it wouldn't do any good.

Heck, tell me more about your ingenious fireplace. Tell me more about your tricks for keeping food safe in times of drought and floods.

Please don't imagine that we here don't understand the state of the world or think about the future.

We do have food supplies, cots, blankets, oxygen masks, etc in our 127 yr old basement but today I'll add a Bible.