Thanks Peace, after reading the pieces you suggest I can see several sensible precautions we can take without going crazy over this thing. Stuff that would be helpful in the event of earthquake, flu or even terroist attack although thats unlikely in our secluded neck of the woods.Personally I was finding the level of stock piling and accompanying attitudes and worst case scenarios this guy was laying down more scary than the potential disasters.
Rapaire, the weapons are to fight off looters after your food and water (scary huh?)Thanks for the practical suggestions though.
I do know that pandemics are possible though as neither my father nor I knew my grandmother (his mother) as she died in the Spanish flu pandemic in 1920 which I believe killed off some 20,000,000 people worldwide, almost as many as world war I.
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