psybelle

... but I'm still kind of enthralled/overwhelmed by the disaster pr0n coming from the East Coast. I really need not to be looking at this shit when it brings back memories of the San Jose floods (wading out through crotch-deep water when we finally decided to evacuate, and I don't think we ever saw the end of the silt flakes coming out of the ventilation system of the Toyota) and mild PTSD from Loma Prieta.


The easy cure is to not look, the harder one is non-attachment - everything passes. Working on that, but I really like my stuff, dammit... And at the same time, yes - everything passes - but there's no point to being stupid/fatalistic about it all.


Yes, shit happens. Storms happen, floods happen, earthquakes happen. We can't do a thing about any of that. What we can do is take a few simple steps to maximize our ability to respond flexibly to disasters, take a few steps to minimize the burden we might place on a stressed infrastructure and any governmental disaster-response mechanisms.

So... thought experiment time. ( Consider this to be your semi-annual disaster preparedness reminder. )

need to poke at this some more...