[WVNan]

We lost our well during the 7 quake here a few years back. With an entire goatherd, huge chicken flock, and 4 kids, it was a small disaster for us to not have water. Fema was at our front door 4 or 5 days later with an offer of a check,p>MarMema, I just can't help but remember back to my childhood when any given summer when it didn't rain enough, my grandparent's cistern would dry up. They had a 40 acre farm with animals, crops, garden. So what did they do? Call FEMA? Nope. Grandpap hitched up the horses to the wagon, loaded four or five big barrels and drove a mile one way to the nearest creek where there was also a spring to be found. Filled up the barrels, watered the animals and the garden, and made another round trip for more barrels. This was a daily chore until the rains came again. Just one example of how soft we are and how we have lost our self-reliance.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

"Just one example of how soft we are and how we have lost our self-reliance."

You got it right. Excellent story. People ought to read the book "Pushing to the Front" by Orison Swett Marden.

[MarMema]

We obviously made do without the well for that period of time and some after. The point was that fema was very responsive.