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As hurricane Matthew approaches the coast of the US, we will likely get to see, once again, how people will react in a large scale weather event and evacuation. In years past, we saw sights of people stuck on freeways running out of fuel, grocery stores emptied of water, batteries, and other supplies in just an hour or two, and the rescues of those who decided to remain. As of this morning, storm surges along the southeastern coast of FL are predicted (and are usually exaggerated) to be as much as 15 ft. If one is at sea-level, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what would happen there. At least the Sunshine State has evacuation routes that are plainly marked and the state patrol reverses the opposite sides of the freeways to add lanes to the traffic flow, but once the public bugs-out, where do they go? No plan.
In 2014, Atlanta had a couple of inches of snow that stranded thousands on the roads for as much as 2-days. Some stranded motorists were living in convenience stores with no power until the roads were reopened, unable to get to their homes or to pick up their children from schools. A side note, while the people were stranded, the Mayor of Atlanta had a path cleared so that he would not miss a photo-op to speak to the Georgia Association of Business Brokers about creating a favorable climate for business. Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
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In contrast, Russia is planning a mass nuclear war exercise that will involve 40 million people going to bunkers to escape the possibility of war with the US: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news./19079...-rise-with-us/. It seems that the Russian government is planning ahead in case Killary is elected and she decides to start a hot war. There have been stories written in the past couple of decades that say that in case of war, Russia has factories and housing underground so that citizens and manufacturing will survive. In the US, we have found that our government officials have bunkers for themselves to make sure that the bureaucracy survives to lord-over the remaining masses. At least our factories will survive as they are in China.
As I was watching The Weather Channel this morning, the hosts were showing what things all people in the affected areas should have on hand in case of bad weather event. One of the items was a multi-tool. The one shown was a Swiss army knife that the male anchor could not open because of his nicely trimmed fingernails and lack of experience using such a high-tech device. Lord help us.
In 2014, Atlanta had a couple of inches of snow that stranded thousands on the roads for as much as 2-days. Some stranded motorists were living in convenience stores with no power until the roads were reopened, unable to get to their homes or to pick up their children from schools. A side note, while the people were stranded, the Mayor of Atlanta had a path cleared so that he would not miss a photo-op to speak to the Georgia Association of Business Brokers about creating a favorable climate for business. Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
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In contrast, Russia is planning a mass nuclear war exercise that will involve 40 million people going to bunkers to escape the possibility of war with the US: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news./19079...-rise-with-us/. It seems that the Russian government is planning ahead in case Killary is elected and she decides to start a hot war. There have been stories written in the past couple of decades that say that in case of war, Russia has factories and housing underground so that citizens and manufacturing will survive. In the US, we have found that our government officials have bunkers for themselves to make sure that the bureaucracy survives to lord-over the remaining masses. At least our factories will survive as they are in China.
As I was watching The Weather Channel this morning, the hosts were showing what things all people in the affected areas should have on hand in case of bad weather event. One of the items was a multi-tool. The one shown was a Swiss army knife that the male anchor could not open because of his nicely trimmed fingernails and lack of experience using such a high-tech device. Lord help us.
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