Comments on: Starting Out Strange

By: Skip J.

Skip J. — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:05:00 +0000

Well – Rita missed us, but Ike tore us up pretty bad. We on the west side – the “clean side” – came out ok, but the east/dirty side took a major hit. Boliver as we knew it is gone; will have to wait and see what comes back – if anything…. Beachfront property ain’t what she used to be!!!

I am leaning towards your handtool toolbox for “no electricity” events because some day we’re gonna get the worst case scenario and need to “build” ourselves out!

Skip

By: Skip J.

Skip J. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:45:39 +0000

I have never read it or seen the movie…. Probably never will either, human exploitation is a hard one to live with. “On the Beach” was scary to me, both the book and the movie.

I have a friend in Thailand that I exchange Christmas cards with each year; so I wrote him after the tsunami whether he or any of his family had been affected by it. He wrote back that he had been vacationing on that beach with his family 5 days before it hit. Mercy!

That latest series of Mars books by John Varley has a tsunami hit the east coast US in the first book, which then affects subsequent events in several following books. One of the best recent movies is the “I am Legend” with Will Smith – I just loved it.

Skip

By: BobStrawn

BobStrawn — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:44:20 +0000

I think this is good stuff to keep in mind.

Apocalypse happens. The Grapes of Wrath is my favorite Apocalyptic book. The warning it gives is that the people exploiting the event can make it much worse than the event alone. I have not read it in 40 years and I guess I need to reread it. I am not looking forward to the read, it is a very scary book.

Bob

By: Skip J.

Skip J. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:46:35 +0000

Got a new book from the library titled “Wastelands” that is 20 or 30 stories by various authors of post-apocalyptic scenarios. One of them is titled the “End of the World as We Knew It”. About 1/2 are good stories and about 1/2 are kinda flaky. Well worth reading if you like that sort of thing.

Being raised under the threat of nuclear winter in the ’60′s, today seems rather mild by comparison. Even ‘Nam seemed preferable to that at the time. But living in the islands of the far east after the tsunami, and/or NO after Katrina is post-apocalyptic to those folks in the here and now. Rita almost got us before it turned, so I feel it in my bones as we descend into ‘cane season…

Skip

By: Skip J.

Skip J. — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:01:42 +0000

We lose power for a week every time a hurricane comes thru… The biggest problem is doing without drinking water…. all the bottled water sells out before the ‘cane hits. Some places in east Texas lost power for a month when Rita came thru… We fill all the sinks and tubs right before it hits, but that’s not real clean water…. still need to boil it…. beats the heck outta no water at all tho…

Now if the whole world looked like NO after Katrina hit, then a ‘cane would be a life-changing event….