Batten down the hatches!
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greatbearAs much as I like to think of that as just another prelude to Talk Like A Pirate Day (arrrrrr!) instead it has to be prepping for the upcoming appearance of Isabel. Gotta bring in the furniture from the deck, make sure nothing will blow away, pick some of the veggies and clean the one downspout that is sluggish, etc.
I realized how little prepping I need to do.
There is a baseline panic beginning to brew around these parts, the same as it does here in MD when a bad snow is predicted. People rush to the store buying milk, bread and toilet paper. Generators are all sold out. Batteries are scarce. Gas stations are getting a run. Other than some minor stuff, I am already prepared. I dont do this because I am a survivalist, or a Mormon, or whatever, I just like having a buffer in case of a minor event such as this.
I also like the convenience and the fact it saves me money.
Many people must live day-to-day. Out of toilet paper? Go out and get some. Batteries dead? Run to the store. Countless trips for only an item or two, and when you especially need it.
Why?
Wouldnt it be a lot easier, and in fact cheaper, to stock up on your various daily non-perishable needs when they are on sale instead of discovering at the last minute you just used the last of the toilet paper? I snicker every time there is talk on the TV news of a snowstorm coming and the next segment is almost always a reporter standing in a grocery store among the empty shelves telling about how a half hour prior there was a near-riot run on everything there. I sit at home comfy and not worrying. I also have a belly laugh at their expense when the storm amounted to a mere handful of snowflakes that the state unloaded half their salt supply on top of.
It is a lot nicer to be prepared than unprepared, but preparedness in my case happens simply as an old fashioned sense of stocking up coupled with the desire to live a bit more independently than most people do. And a little bit of the old Boy Scout mottoe thrown in for good measure. I have a generator, mostly because out here where I live, there is no city water or sewer, and if power goes out, I am left with nothing. A few years back during one of the most spectacular ice storms I have ever seen, the power in my area had died for an entire weekend. Life went on as it always had at my house, except for a few broken branches and the feeling that I was living in Superman's Ice Fortress. It was breathtakingly beautiful, and peaceful save for the generator humming along. Neighbors who were without power came over to fill up water containers, socialized and thought about buying their own backup plans like I had. You need this sort of stuff nowadays.
I say to Mother Nature: Bring it on!
I realized how little prepping I need to do.
There is a baseline panic beginning to brew around these parts, the same as it does here in MD when a bad snow is predicted. People rush to the store buying milk, bread and toilet paper. Generators are all sold out. Batteries are scarce. Gas stations are getting a run. Other than some minor stuff, I am already prepared. I dont do this because I am a survivalist, or a Mormon, or whatever, I just like having a buffer in case of a minor event such as this.
I also like the convenience and the fact it saves me money.
Many people must live day-to-day. Out of toilet paper? Go out and get some. Batteries dead? Run to the store. Countless trips for only an item or two, and when you especially need it.
Why?
Wouldnt it be a lot easier, and in fact cheaper, to stock up on your various daily non-perishable needs when they are on sale instead of discovering at the last minute you just used the last of the toilet paper? I snicker every time there is talk on the TV news of a snowstorm coming and the next segment is almost always a reporter standing in a grocery store among the empty shelves telling about how a half hour prior there was a near-riot run on everything there. I sit at home comfy and not worrying. I also have a belly laugh at their expense when the storm amounted to a mere handful of snowflakes that the state unloaded half their salt supply on top of.
It is a lot nicer to be prepared than unprepared, but preparedness in my case happens simply as an old fashioned sense of stocking up coupled with the desire to live a bit more independently than most people do. And a little bit of the old Boy Scout mottoe thrown in for good measure. I have a generator, mostly because out here where I live, there is no city water or sewer, and if power goes out, I am left with nothing. A few years back during one of the most spectacular ice storms I have ever seen, the power in my area had died for an entire weekend. Life went on as it always had at my house, except for a few broken branches and the feeling that I was living in Superman's Ice Fortress. It was breathtakingly beautiful, and peaceful save for the generator humming along. Neighbors who were without power came over to fill up water containers, socialized and thought about buying their own backup plans like I had. You need this sort of stuff nowadays.
I say to Mother Nature: Bring it on!
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Date: 2003-09-17 05:44 pm (UTC)