.... if it's not one thing i'ts another. ;)
Posted on 08/25/2011 11:14:43 AM PDT by blam
Maybe there’ll be another quake in the next two to four days and that will make more people think about preparing.
One can only speculate that our East Coast is populated with millions upon millions of wusses.
What’s this “we” business, Mr. Slavo? Have you got a frog in your pocket?
“We are totally unprepared”
On the other hand, being prepared for everything is totally cost prohibitive.
I mean...
What about a hurricane???
“You don’t suppose Washington, D.C. could actually be eradicated by an earthquake, do you?
I mean...
What about a hurricane???”
What about an earthquake followed by a hurricane..or two? Even better!
.... if it's not one thing i'ts another. ;)
All this fuss over a 5.9 magnitude quake?
Do you know what we call a 5.9 magnitude quake in California?
We call it a Tuesday!!!!
A hurricane? Hope springs eternal ... dump enough water in the Shenandoah Valley and upper Potomac, and great things can happen.
After reading your post I just had to post this...
All of this has certainly engendered a discussion of alternative means of communication in our family. We are prepared in other ways....but not this.
Any ideas from fellow freepers?
I think the writer is overstating the degree of panic involved. I was at work in DC on Tuesday when the earthquake hit. There was no mass panic. Everyone in my building, including me, left the building and gathered on the street. There was no screaming or other signs of panic, though I did leave one of my colleagues in another state hanging on the telephone. He said that he listened in for a while to see what everyone’s reaction was, and he was surprised at the lack of panic. All he heard was the phone receiver rattling on my desk. Pretty much everyone in my office is from the East Coast. We aren’t used to earthquakes, so when one happens, we tend to focus on it and, of course, it became the talk of the afternoon. After about an hour, people decided that they weren’t getting anything done and it was a gorgeous day here in DC, so everyone just left. When that happens in DC, the traffic gets unmanageable. Just my experience, but I think it’s pretty representative of what the reaction was to the event here in DC.
Second ... The comms infrastructure was not damaged. It was overloaded. Text messaging and email worked quite well for me.
You might want to investigate Amateur Radio, if you're planning for an event which physically damages the comms infrastructure.
Though we hardly felt any movement here in the city of New York /
The quake must have interrupted his manicure.
We here in the heartland have weathered tornados, blizzards, minor quakes for most of our lives. We don’t cry about it or wait for someone to come save us. We pick-up, buck-up and get the job done.
I suggest this guy contact the liberal politicians New Yorkers believe so much in and ask them what their preparedness is. I would hope that New York would be prepared especially after 9-11.
Yes. We have one in place. We all have a small laminated card with the numbers of out of State relatives along with their email addresses. Now just because the cell networks aren't carrying voice calls doesn't mean they won't be carrying text messages. Text takes far less bandwidth than a voice call so that could be a better way.
A short text message saying whatever has a better chance of getting through than a voice call does when cell networks are under stress.
Put a couple of those pre-paid calling cards into your Bug Out Bag, too. You can use those when you find a hard line that's working.
Oddly enough, we did have a “plague” of locusts [well, Cicadas, technically] this year.
I reckon I should go take a look at the river and see what color it is, mebbe.
:)
PING
We’re getting yet another plague of those ^$#$%# @#$%#%^ ^ *&^(*^ Stink Bugs.
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