ROFL! Duck and roll by Groucho Marx. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h31xJhOP85c

In Canada we didn't have to go under out desks for nuthin'!!! Nowadays I think kids are taught to go under their desks in case of an earthquake.

And our store shelves clear off when they say a rain storm is coming... because here on the weTcoast, it rains for days and days and days...

and God help us if it snows because people here don't all buy snow tires and there aren't enough snow plows ... and its snowing here more and more every year... time to bring out the walking poles! (everyone thinks because we are Canada, that we are used to the rain... but our climate here is much like Seattle and Portland... mild with rain most of the winter... they are warning that this one will be a rough one, tho... so we shall seeeeeeee....

Wish... you're young... and I sense changes are happening in your life so you will perhaps experience snow one day....

Ducky... I love it when you show up!

You, too... Doody... nice to see you around a bit more

Koala does too!

I remember the test patterns on our only TV station, and I remember TV didn't start until 4pm, and I remember we had the National Anthem at midnight (or was it 11pm?) when it closed down for the night, and I remember all the programs were in black & white, and I remember the TV aerial sat on top of the set, and I remember much more ..... but I'm feeling too old to continue

What a fun thread...loved the Duck & roll ducky...and I remember it well.
The worst blizzard in my lifetime was the one in 1978...http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/?n=blizzardof78

Everyone has a story about that one. The road was closed outside of our house and people left their cars and walked down to our old farm house for shelter...we had a kitchen full of strangers and went through pots of coffee and exchanged lot of stories. Their families would show up and cart them off on snowmobiles...several brought skies and it was so strange to see them "striding" off on top of all that snow.

Mr.Alffe was stuck in town and we were getting low on groceries...four kids and me..so Michael took his sled and walked down the road to a neighboring farmer who sold eggs and he carefully came home with about three dozen of them. A day or two later Mr.Alffe was delivered to us on a county snow plow, arms filled with groceries..a very welcome sight to us and some of our neighbors who wanted pkgs of hamburger from the sacks.

We worked on puzzles on the dinning room table and prayed that the furnace wouldn't go out.

Wonderful memories and BMW....lol, I am not now, nor have I ever been high...except on bourbon.

Glad you got tickets!!

You need emergency supplies? I don't.
I haven't been to check out my "Emergency Stuff" (mostly cat food) in the basement, but Monday I started cleaning out the cupboard and storage cabinets here.
I found 6 jars of marachino cherries Does that tell you how I collect and store?

Speaking of emergency supplies...

I have a friend who decided they weren't going to go to the grocery store, except for milk for the baby, until they truly had NO food left in the house... they call it the Great American Eat Down...

They have been eating 3 meals a day for the last 5 weeks... no going out. My friend told me she thinks they could eat for a couple more months.

I think my family could eat for months with what's in the cabinets and freezer....

I may have to try this Great American Eat Down.

yeah, they used to play the national anthem every night when programming ended ( WAVE 3 has ended it's broadcasting day. ) Then they played it again in the morning ( at four-thirty) before the farm report.
I remember the kids show...but can't remember the name...and Wayne Perky and the morning show.
what I seem not to remember is sleeping. LOL

Oh, and we used to have tornado drills ( everyone in the hall with your hands over your heads), fire drills ( everyone outside in a calm manner) and earthquake drills ( everyone under the nearest desk or table...hand over your head again).'
I got in trouble for asking what to do if there were a fire during a tornado.... ( inside or out????)
some people have no sense of the ridiculous.

ROFL! Okay, ((Wren)) you got me to chuckling there. ((Abbie)) I moved on to chuckling and grinning. ((Duck)) of course I LOL!

Yes, that's what they call that thing...the National Anthem, with a flag waving and the whole 9 yards.. I can't tell you how many nights and mornings I went to sleep and woke up with that. NO television during the night, nada.

Duck, I often wondered the same thing myself. Okay, we're out here in the hall with our hands over our heads. But seriously, I just saw a fire start over there in the corner. What should we do? ROFL! Strange, but we never had earthquake drills here (even though there is that scary Madrid fault goin on.).

Kinda makes you wonder what they thought putting our hands over our heads would do for our safety in the event of crumbling walls, flying debris or that dreaded flash of light before the atom bomb hit.

In the mornings here, first had to watch the news, then came Captain Kangaroo and our local Magic Window. Of course, on our black and white TV. We never did get to have a color TV as a child. I couldn't tell you when we may have gotten one either.

OH, geesh, has nothing to do with drills, but I also remember discovering there were FM stations, not just AM!

(slinking away with my grey hair feeling very old now)

Oh...and every time I go to my pantry cupboard now, I throw away a few more things. Dang, the cupboard is getting bare. Shows how much I cook.