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Apologize for taking so long to mention that September is National Preparedness Month and that Preparation Day itself is set for 9/30. If like me you were unaware of all this, there is a website appropriately named Ready.gov that will help explain it much better than I can (click here.)
Don’t know if they timed it accordingly or not, but a few weeks back, the Washington Post folks did an article about preppers out in the Pacific Northwest who are readying for the worst (click here.) I think the preppers are all a little nuts but then again I’m at the other end of the preparedness spectrum as in “I’ll deal with whatever occurs, if and when it occurs.” Too, I can’t resist re-telling the joke “Following the apocalypse, I’d like to be the last man on earth just to see if all those women were really telling me the truth.”
Related to preparing for potential disasters, the National Geographic did a good series on the subject of a potential power grid blackout such as the one that hit the US and Canada in 2003 (click here.)
Song-wise remember when this one was so scary and controversial?