What do YOU prepare for?

**crashdive123** · 02-16-2008, 08:34 PM

Do you prepare for situations that you're likely to be in? or do you prepare for situations that you could be in? Would having more information about an impending event cause you to look at what you've done to prepare and then possibly adjust your plan? If you had information like this

"If the engagement fails, the satellite is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere on or about 6 March 2008 in any region on the Earth's surface between 58.5 degrees North and 58.5 degrees South latitudes,"

as seen on Breitbart.com would you do anything. Do you like the way it's narrowed down to between 58 north and 58 south? Is all information good, or is some of it just useless?

**dilligaf2u2** · 02-16-2008, 09:09 PM

Would having more information about an impending event cause you to look at what you've done to prepare and then possibly adjust your plan? If you had information like this
Loaded question. No I would just sit down and wait for either the end to come or FIMA to get here. I already did too much and after all the government will come take care of my needs!

Is all information good, or is some of it just useless?
Taken in moderation all information is useful to someone, some where for some reason.

re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere on or about 6 March 2008 in any region on the Earth's surface between 58.5 degrees North and 58.5 degrees South latitudes.
Duck and cover! I'll be in my bunker reading old Archie comics at that time. Wake me when FEMA gets here.

Don

**wareagle69** · 02-17-2008, 08:33 AM

(knock at the door) hi we're from the goverment and were here to help

**Sam** · 02-17-2008, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by wareagle69

(knock at the door) hi we're from the goverment and were here to help

And a check is in the mail. (tax relief checks)

**Sourdough** · 02-17-2008, 12:39 PM

All the important data I need comes from looking out the window. Is it snowing-check, is it raining-check, is it snowing and raining-check, is the wind blowing-check, temprature-check...........

**Sourdough** · 02-17-2008, 01:29 PM

Remy, Perhaps there is no unknown that can be prepared for. Like grasping infinity....?

**Shaman** · 02-17-2008, 03:36 PM

I only have prepared for the things that I know will happen sooner or later in my area, like....

I live on a flood plain and the 100 year flood has happened twice in the 15 years that I've lived here. People canoing and kayaking up and down the street, kinda fun for a week or so.

The occassional 2-3 day power outage from the ever increasing wind storms we have been having on the west coast. Gives me an opportunity to bar-b-que all the stuff in the freezer before it goes bad. Kinda sucks when I have to start the truck for a couple hours so I can charge the cell phone and check my e-mail.

Almost forgot, we have a nuclear reactor about 2 miles from my house as a crow flies at the local university, so I guess we're a target of opportunity for some terrorist cell to turn a chunk of the PNW into 'no mans land'.

**RobertRogers** · 02-18-2008, 11:33 AM

Too many possible specific events to plan for any of them.

The best you can do is overall preparation. Learning, gear, practice.

**Rick** · 02-18-2008, 02:29 PM

I prepared for the unknown once but didn't know what I was preparing for so when the unknown happened and become known I found I was unprepared for the known and died.

**nell67** · 02-18-2008, 02:35 PM

OOOHHHH ,I bet that was painful,eh Rick??

**Sourdough** · 02-18-2008, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by remy

Preparing for the unknown is possible, but it involves a great deal of "letting go" more than gathering...

Maybe it is all a dance around our fear of death. The ultimate unknown.

**trax** · 02-18-2008, 04:45 PM

somewhere between 58.5 degrees north and the same south? well 1/3 of the world can breathe a sigh of relief huh?

I prepare for the unknown all the time, I do nothing, not knowing it seems like the right thing to do, whereas doing something might be the right thing to not do...hope I don't wind up dead like Rick..hmmm, but that's unknown.

**trax** · 02-18-2008, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by hopeak

Maybe it is all a dance around our fear of death. The ultimate unknown.

who knows?

**Sourdough** · 02-18-2008, 04:59 PM

Well look at that....me dumber than a stick, as Brad Blanton puts it. And you the the smartest pumpkin in the pumpkin'patch......an' we'za comes to da' same contusion, or is that conclusion?