[backhoe]

Interesting. All I’m hearing on the radio and in the Op Eds and so on is a bunch of commentary about how we are all fearful idiots, fearmongerers, doomsayers and so on. I am, above all else, a contingency planner. I do not like surprises and I like to be prepared. When they tell us a blizzard is coming, I know that there is a chance we will not have a blizzard but I go out and buy break, milk, eggs and basics to get me through just in case. Does it hurt me to have stuff if there is NO blizzard? Of course not. This is why I don’t get the mentality of some people. What is wrong with having some basic things in place. Nobody has a crystal ball. Nobody. Stocking up on food is never a bad thing and should the crisis never occur, well now you can donate stuff to a food pantry - a win-win if you ask me.

We're with you on that.

I sure wouldn't hit the panic button unless this thing becomes more virulent, and spreads faster and farther- but being prepared is just good sense.

[Paved Paradise]

I was talking to a friend the other day and I told her that when we see “signs” or have “warnings” and we ignore the warnings, well, if nothing happens, then we forget all about it but if, perchance, the warnings turn out to be legitimate harbingers of things to come, well, then we’d be kicking ourselves in the butt at our stupidity for not preparing. I like to think that I have better things to do than kicking myself in the butt.