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Subject: Re: Terrorism and Trauma Author: S [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10:46:23 12/30/01 Sun In reply to: aileen 's message, "Re: Terrorism and Trauma" on 10:38:04 12/30/01 Sun My mother used to drive me crazy with worrying over me when I was on the road. If I took a long trip, she'd want me to stop and call her every couple of hours so she'd know I hadn't been in an accident. I kept telling her if she didn't hear anything, that meant I was okay. Someone would be bound to call if I was dead. Made no difference. She still worried. Now I don't let it bother me. I just call. I don't really have a disaster kit. But I do have jugs of water in my storage room. That's because I'm pretty sure a hurricane could hit without me noticing it was coming. I keep water just in case. I don't think I'm a big target for terrorism. If I still lived near the nuke plant maybe, but here--all they'd hit would be some tacky lawn furniture and a couple of black labs. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> Subject: emergency preparedness Author: aileen [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:58:42 12/30/01 Sun when I still attended church I gave classes (more like informal Q and A) about assembling the disaster kit. Its for fire, earthquake, etc. Terror attacks somehow got tacked on the end there for some reason.... The "good mormon" family is supposed to have a one year supply of goods on hand in case of severe disaster - one that does damage to govt infrastructure/ communications, etc. But all that wheat and dried beans go to waste because there arent many people in the US who know how to make bread from scratch (with fresh ground whole wheat ONLY no less) or soak beans for cooking. I know how to do both but only because I get on jags where I want to learn all I can about something. Most people dont have that luxury. The church has all but given up on that and now asserts people should have at the very least a 72 Hour Kit

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: emergency preparedness Author: S [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:09:52 12/30/01 Sun I know how to make bread. You toss the mix into the bread machine with a cup of water and wait a couple of hours. Easy. I usually have enough stuff around that I could get by for a few days. The only way I have to cook without electricity, though, is on a gas grill. I have used it in the garage before in a pinch. I get very impatient with non-perishable foods after about the second day. I once asked my boyfriend to go drive around town and see if he could find an open restaurant in the middle of a hurricane. He actually did it. I was only joking, but I guess I was starting to scare him. After risking his neck to satisfy my whim, though, there wasn't a single damned place in town that still had electricity.

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: bread machine Author: aileen [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:21:38 12/30/01 Sun I had a bread machine once. That dough hook pissed me off. It had a short life. Besides theres nothing more comforting than slamming raw dough as hard as you can into the table when you want to smack something... but enough on that. ;) I stopped baking bread when my husband went on that Atkins(sp?) Diet. I told my mom once that I intended to use the BBQ if things got desparate in a winter power outage. "INSIDE!?!" she wailed.