Anyone know anyone on the east coast without power? It’s 3 days now and let me tell you, they’re freakin out! The 100 degree plus temps don’t help but it shows how fragile we as a society are that people cannot go 72 hours without electricity. Imagine if they or better yet, you, had to go a few weeks. Or let’s look at the worst case scenario, what if we experienced a solar storm like the Carrington event in the late 1800’s that knocked out power nationwide for close to a year! Could you survive? What would you eat, how would you cook, stay cool, stay warm, get from place to place, they’re would be no gas as it takes power to run the pumps. Store shelves would be empty within 3 days as trucks wouldn’t have gas to deliver food and goods. You couldn’t get money as banks would be closed down and the list goes on and on. This isn’t as far fetched as you would think. The U.S. has had contingency plans for years for just this scenario as a nationwide power outage can also be caused by an EMP (electro magnetic pulse) which could occur from a rogue nation such as Iran setting off a nuclear explosion high in the atmosphere ( 20 miles) above the country. That’s our military’s biggest fear, not being blown up but having our power grid knocked out. This would actually be more effective if you think about it.
Of course we all hope this never happens but it’s interesting how 99% plus of the people affected are not prepared. I guess they’ve been too busy following the Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes divorce saga to worry about being ready to take care of themselves and their family should some sort of natural disaster strike. You get the point. We as a society are so wrapped up by meaningless trivial distractions that most of us couldn’t survive a week on our own. We’ve become soft as a people and sooner or later, something’s going to happen and those who are not prepared are going to be in deep you know what. Face it, our economy is just not sustainable. Sooner or later we will face a correction, many, including several Nobel Prize winning economists, say it’ll be this fall. Are you ready?
Alright, enough doom and gloom for today. We’re getting ready to head up the mountain for the misses procedure. The boys are going with us as we have no place else for them to go. We did run them to the pool around dinner time last night only to be shut out by lightening. We were running late as some friends (she’s an artist) came over and brought us a large piece of art to hang over the fireplace. It’s 5 horses sort of running and is a combination of a photograph and painting. The misses is helping represent her work to various people we know. It looks great hanging above the fireplace. We’ve been looking for a horse painting or photo or something for a long long time. This is the best of both, a photo of actual horses with a hint of paint thrown in here and there.
We should be home around 2 or 3 this afternoon and hopefully the misses will be feeling better. This has to stop, somehow.
Time to run so I can get some calls in before we go, take care and have a great day and for God’s sake, go out and get some extra food and water, just in case, it can’t hurt and sooner or later you’ll use it anyhow!