lsu2001 wrote:I really don't understand the cavalier attitudes both on this site and in the general population about preparing in advance for any type of disaster. The attitudes that have been put forward on this thread really remind me of alot of the posts on the wwltv.com forum prior to Katrina. A lot of the people on that board were making statements like "gotta die sometime" Can't evac or prep the govt will provide etc. Not flaming anyone but I sense the same type of attitudes about BF, Terrorism, etc. I promise you one thing I learned from Katrina that I will never be caught without an emergency kit and stockpile of food and water. I
am not so concerned about the actual disease (because if you get it you get it) what concerns me is the potential for supply disruptions.Rant over,

Tim
You make a good point, Tim, and an emergency kit is always a good thing. At our location we had to evacuate for Ivan. It would have been good to have copies of all our documents in one place so that we could have grabbed our stuff and left. We were lucky because the water didn't get into our house.
Still, bad things happen and people die everyday. My own personal choice is that I am not going to get excited about each and every potential disaster. I'd spend my life worrying and planning, maintaining and rotating supplies, missing opportunities to enjoy life or do good things for others. I'm not going to do that.
The odds still favor that I'll die of a stroke when I'm in my 70's or 80's (family history), as long as a car doesn't hit me when I'm riding my bike first.
Mad Cow disease, Bird Flu, flooding, tornado, car jacking, car accident, domestic situation, drowning in the bathtub. The list is endless. I am not going to give myself an ulcer to suffer with until something inevitably does me in.
This space for rent.