When Michael was expected to hit us as a Category 1 storm, I was thinking "this will be a good test run for our preps".
Now it's only a few hours away and it's a Category 4. So this isn't just a test, it's what we actually primarily prepare for as a family.
It's all fun and games to prepare for the eventually economic downfall and the next civil war and all that grandiose crap, but it's much more important to prepare for the things you KNOW will happen, because they happen all the time.
For my family, that's a hurricane.
Granted, we haven't been hit since Ivan and Dennis in 2004 and 2005, but that's an anomaly to have such a long break. What it means is that our area has a whole lot of young adults who weren't old enough to help with the preparations or the cleanup after Ivan and Dennis, and therefore didn't get to learn from experience how to deal with it.
A whole lot of young people (and older ones who simply forgot over the last 13 years or so) are about to get a hard lesson on the dangers of normalcy bias.
As for us, our windows are boarded up, water is stored, food is stored, etc. Time for Michael to show us where are gaps are.
Hopefully in not too harsh of a manner.
Said a prayer for you and your family and neighbors.
ReplyDeleteIt must have worked because it's been a dud here. Storm finally took that turn to the Northeast, so we've just gotten a little wind and some rain.
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