preparing for disaster

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Hi Everyone,

I won't be around much for the next couple of days as we finish the last of our disaster preparations for the coming *unknown*. We will do the best we can and leave it at that. My step-daughter is flying in from California (planned it weeks ago) for the weekend. I will also be keeping my daughter and granddaughter close, so it will be a lively time (teeny-weeny house).

God bless all my dear Whole Women whom I love with all my heart!

Christine

Christine, am interested in knowing what preparations you are making....any tips for the rest of us?

Hi Yellow Daffodil,

The situation in Japan is brutally difficult. The radiation coming to the States is one thing, but the huge amounts of stored plutonium about to go up in smoke is quite another. I certainly don’t know what it all means or remotely how to prepare for it.

In considering the worst case scenario, my thought is that the particles will probably travel through the air on dust. So, maybe we can stay inside and if necessary tape up doors and windows.

I think I have enough food and drinking/cooking water for several weeks. Our water comes largely from a river and this may become polluted as the cloud passes over. A huge radioactive cloud might travel around the earth several times, I just don’t know.

We will be eating a vegan diet with sprouts as our only green for the foreseeable future.

They are fighting the good fight in Japan - I guess I’m not understanding why we don’t have every military on earth pitching in to snuff the thing out as quickly as possible.

My generation grew up diving under our school desks and terrified of just this inevitability. All I can hope is that it heralds the end of the nuclear age. It was a truly evil experiment.

Let's all hope for the best.

Christine

Thanks ,Christine, for this and all that you do and have done for us girls! We are thinking of introducing seaweed into our diet...sprouts is a great idea...we also drink Kombucha every day (it has replaced the alcohol we used to consume way too much of!)...delicious stuff and supposed to purify our system as well as having many other health benefits. I make my own as it is quite expensive and mine tastes better!

Christine, and all people affected by this nuclear 'accident', my heart goes out to all of you while you wait on uncertaintly. I really don't know what I would do in the same situation. Waiting for a big storm to hit, a natural phenomenon, an act of nature, is one thing. A sudden, dangerous earthquake and even the resulting tsunami are the same. There is nothing you can do except prepare, then mop up afterwards.

But these nuclear power stations, which are creations of human kind, and created by our very short term thinking mentality, are our own creations. We have caused this chaos and destruction.

We will be dealing with the consequences of it for many years. Hopefully it will be a wake up call about the devastating damage that results when the 1 in a million thing goes wrong. The risks of nuclear power station disasters might be miniscule, but you try telling those people whose lives and communities and land are being laid waste by this 'tiny' problem.

Here's hoping the damage doesn't spread too far.

Louise

Many nuclear power plants should have been closed down long ago. Now it is time that all should be closed down, and everyone should push for alternate energy sources that do not harm the land, water or the air, and all that is within.

Good interviews may be found here:

http://www.democracynow.org/

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