If you've been staying informed, searching out alternative forms of news and information, you are already prepared. If you haven't, I'm not about to start crying, "The sky is falling." However, I tend to think one should prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Neither a pessimist nor an optimist, I try to be a realist.
If you do nothing else, please make sure you have plenty of water (or ice), gas, and non-perishable food on hand. Cash in small bills is particularly important. These are the items you'll need regardless of what happens. Often times, it's not the crisis that produces the need for these things, but rather the panic in the face of possible crisis.
What you can do: Prepare
- The Federal Government has been pleading with us for several years to prepare.
- Popular Mechanics put out an interesting article in August of 2007. Read it. Prepare your home, car, and a backpack. Their .pdf file is an easy checklist of items.
- The LDS church has perfected organization and preparation; I found one of their websites that has some great resources. Check it out as well.
- If you type in 72-hour kit or first aid kit into google, you'll come up with lots of lists.
The idea is to continue to be as prepared as we can be. We may have to hunker down and weather the storm, but at least this way, when others panic, we can be calm and ready. We can provide stability for our loved ones when it feels like the world is falling apart. Because, in the end, the only things that matter are the people we love.
Just remember: Water, Gas, and Cash. With silver prices falling, you may find it wise to purchase some junk silver in the form of pre-1964 quarters, dimes, and half-dollars.
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I sincerely doubt it will come to that level of panic and crisis. However, those are good suggestions no matter what's going on. I just wish there were more people like you in Houston, Texas and surrounding areas when Hurricane Ike hit. If more people had been prepared then there would not have been price gouging, panic, and the "need" for a mass exodus. From Galveston, yes. But from Houston? No.
Anthony's rule: You are one tank of gas from The Lord of the Flies.
@selonus: the "perfect storm" idea is an interesting one. When chaos hits the microcosm of New Orleans or L.A. or other major urban areas, one of the more significant reactions has not been self-reliance but rather rioting and looting.
As we head into a contentious election, face certain economic woes, and perhaps experience gas, food, and other supply shortages, I wonder if this is what's meant by the "perfect storm." The idea of preparation is not necessarily aimed at surviving tough times, but maybe instead at surviving the people around you.
@anthony: no doubt. The entire point, then, of civilization, morality, and civil law is to prevent the disintegration of a society into chaos... or into The Lord of the Flies. Other societies have turned to tyranny or communisim to control the masses. We (Americans, democratic-republicans, freedom-seekers) believe in the inherent human ability to self-direct, self-discipline, and self-rely. My worry is this: if we (as a nation) continue down the path we're on, we'll continue to become reliant not upon ourselves but rather upon our government. Once that happens, we are ripe for the picking -- and, frankly, no longer deserve to be called citizens of a free nation.
Hey Alex you are blogging about my novel Bunny Trouble :-p
Civilizations fail. All of them. When they fail or how they fail is a matter of logic.
How one prepares or not for the failure is simply measured in degrees of denial.
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