Speaking of bows, a musican friend of mine is a 'good ol' boy' from Arkansas. He is BIG, not only in height but in girth. His wife is about 5' 6" and normal sized. They go to an archery range every week and he says she is better with the bow than he is, even though he has been shooting much longer than she.

I'm of two minds - or more - about going into survival mode. I remember Ike Eisenhower wrote in connection with nuclear war that if the time came that everyone around him had died he wouldn't want to live either.

Juneau, Alaska, is vulnerable in ways that is not true in less isolated places. If planes weren't flying and no barges or ships were coming up from Seattle we'd run out of groceries, gasoline and other commodities quite quickly. Although we could still have electricity- we have hydropower and it is self-sufficient, not on a grid.

Hmmmm. I went to check on the State of Alaska Emergency Preparedness information and I found this:

"State of Alaska Threat Level
ELEVATED

National Threat Level
HIGH
For commercial aviation operating in or destined for the United States

Alaska Cyber Security Alert Level
GUARDED

Is this directive new?