A postscript.....
Jun. 14th, 2007 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundYesterday's run on zombies and the like was a VERY interesting thought experiment.
One of the more interesting aspects of it was looking at one's immediate enviroment and seeing what resources one had available. This is a good mode of thought to cultivate in case of an emergency or disaster.
I was really happy when people started IMing me asking "Okay, how would I leave SD or LA if the main freeways were pooched?" Both because I could draw on my experience with old highways and the like, AND because it showed me that I have some gaps where LA is concerned. Both are good things to know.
Was a fun way of doing a disaster drill.
I may have to throw $15 to Zombie Squad. I like how they use the whole "zombie attack" thing to teach disaster preparedness at SF/F conventions and the like. *Very* cool indeed.
And it may not be a bad idea to teach something along disaster preparedness lines at an SCA collegium sometime either.
It's also interesting to note my priority range. Which was:
1) Make sure Little Bit was safe
2) Make my way to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seattlejo soonest.
To do both, I had to make sure *I* was okay first. Very odd way of thinking. I'm used to putting others needs ahead of mine, realizing that sometimes, in order to do that, I had to put my immediate needs first in the queue.
Asseattlejo tells me sometimes "drive safe, (I'm) precious cargo"
On edit:
http://fabricdragon.livejournal.com/57658.html
http://mysryael.livejournal.com/79430.html
Other post-action writeups as I find them
One of the more interesting aspects of it was looking at one's immediate enviroment and seeing what resources one had available. This is a good mode of thought to cultivate in case of an emergency or disaster.
I was really happy when people started IMing me asking "Okay, how would I leave SD or LA if the main freeways were pooched?" Both because I could draw on my experience with old highways and the like, AND because it showed me that I have some gaps where LA is concerned. Both are good things to know.
Was a fun way of doing a disaster drill.
I may have to throw $15 to Zombie Squad. I like how they use the whole "zombie attack" thing to teach disaster preparedness at SF/F conventions and the like. *Very* cool indeed.
And it may not be a bad idea to teach something along disaster preparedness lines at an SCA collegium sometime either.
It's also interesting to note my priority range. Which was:
1) Make sure Little Bit was safe
2) Make my way to
seattlejo soonest.To do both, I had to make sure *I* was okay first. Very odd way of thinking. I'm used to putting others needs ahead of mine, realizing that sometimes, in order to do that, I had to put my immediate needs first in the queue.
As
seattlejo tells me sometimes "drive safe, (I'm) precious cargo"On edit:
http://fabricdragon.livejournal.com/57658.html
http://mysryael.livejournal.com/79430.html
Other post-action writeups as I find them
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Date: 2007-06-14 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-06-14 06:51 pm (UTC)Taking care of yourself first
Date: 2007-06-14 04:49 pm (UTC)The airlines remind us of this when they say put your own oxy mask on first, then help the kid.
Also interesting is thinking what to do in a "stay put until things normalize" emergency (like maybe an earthquake) vs. a "get the heck outa Dodge" emergency. They require different mindsets and preparations. I figure most SCAdians have a leg up on the first one, since we tend to have camping supplies and low-tech tools :-).
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Date: 2007-06-15 04:55 pm (UTC)I read this book in the 9th or 10th grade (approx. 1990) in school, and I had remembered bits and pieces of it, but not the whole scope. So it was an interesting read. It's set in 1959, and is about how people would/could survive a full out attack of the Russians. How to create a community, how to figure out the water/food/energy situation, as well as how keep people safe and protect from the human dangers out there. The details of a total breakdown of American society may have changed, but the basic issues would still be the same as they were in 1959.
Red and I talked about it a few weeks ago, and he tells me that he ALWAYS has a contingency plan on how to A: survive, and B: escape - and now it's even more convoluted, with the children. He actually has fairly good 'plans' on how he'd either stay in one place and survive, or how to get to a safe place if the location wasn't optimal. And since there were 2 weeks of us being apart, part of his plans also include how to reunite the family - either by one set hiding out and waiting, or 'meeting in the middle'. We had a similar discussion when Katrina happened, too - if we had been in New Orleans and unable to get out before the storm, what would we have done - and how we'd have protected ourselves and the children if we were stuck in the Superdome, on a rooftop, etc.
While it's sort of strange to think about - it's one of those things that I really like about Red - since I trust his judgment and expertise, and since he has survival skills and the drive to make it all work. Now that we have the house, we've already talked about how to escape from it, in case of emergency - who'd grab which child, the order of jumping out windows (as needed), etc.
So - planning for Zombies seems like a good exercise for how to survive a disaster, in my book! And besides - it was a LOT of fun to read about a day later, once I figured out what was happening. Since when I first started catching up on LJ, I thought that some big invasion had happened in LA that I'd somehow missed on the radio, grin.