[bgill]

It's always a BIG deal when calamity hits DC or NYC. Not so much in flyover country where folks seem to get hit more often and are more prepared to cope, on average.

Katrina caused NO to completely collapse and people were hollering on bridges that the water bottles weren't chilled properly. A few weeks later when Rita hit, people got down to the business of cleaning up and getting things back to normal.

[Marcella]

I lost power due to Rita, then later when Ike came in.

I don’t have a generator as I have planned for a long time disruption and couldn’t store that much fuel anyway. I will be fairly comfortable in heat and in cold using low tech solutions. I’ll also have water using low tech.

You guys can lift heavy objects;equipment - I can’t. We get almost the same things done, I just have to adjust to my physical limitations doing it another way.