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Well, at this stage, if disaster strikes it's my job to work. And DH
can deal with the homefront. Supplies? Nah, we don't have them....funny, my work is preparing for the disasters and responding when necessary (which is why last night was the first night's sleep I got since Wednesday last week). But at home? I'm afraid we have no plan. |
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Is anyone but me worried enough to be planning for the flu pandemic? This
is what really scares me, because the likelihood that it's going to happen some time while DS is a child at home seems much higher than for any other disaster to affect us. There doesn't seem to be a great deal that one can plan for, but I am trying to be in the habit of having a big enough stock of food that if we didn't want to be in contact with other people for a few weeks, we wouldn't starve; and DH and I have discussed under what circumstances we'd keep DS home from nursery and refuse to go to work and be in contact with other people. (Not as drastic as it might seem, since we work in a university, and we reckon that asking universities to stop face-to-face teaching would be one of the first steps government would take in the event of a pandemic. Our research, and some teaching, can be done from home, though having to look after DS would have an impact if the pandemic arrives any time soon!) I have wondered whether we ought to get some kind of basic face mask to allow us to go out while cutting the risk of droplet or hand-to-face infection; DH and I could cope with simply staying inside for a few weeks, but I don't think DS could! Sidheag DS Colin Oct 27 2003 |
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"Sidheag McCormack" wrote in message
... DH and I could cope with simply staying inside for a few weeks, but I don't think DS could! Just a thought -- I know of one family that got their kids out of diapers coincident with winter storms knocking out the power. Their normal lives, with both parents employed outside of the home, was quite busy, and no one had the time to really work with the kids on toileting. When the weather went bad and the power went out, both parents were at home with no electronic entertainment, and they had four days of nothing better to do than to work with their two-and-a-half-year old on toileting. Two years later, another winter storm, and his younger brother got switched into underpants, too. If your kid was born in October (as it looks like in your .sig), maybe you could hope for a late winter storm (a pandemic is more than I would want) where you live? -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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"Claire Petersky" wrote:
The other set of plans in place have centered around setting up camp at home. We have two large 2.5 gallon jugs of fresh water stored, and food for about five days on hand. We live in an area where earthquakes are always a possibility, so one of the things we've done is to secure the water heater to the wall, so there's no chance it would fall over. That means we have 40 gallons of fresh water always available. Of course, the trick would be to remember not to let more water in from the outside that could be tainted after the earthquake happens. Peggy -- Many wise words are spoken in jest; but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest. --- Sam Levenson |
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Chookie wrote: In article , "Claire Petersky" wrote: I haven't had a chance to read the whole thread yet...just wanted to make a coment or two. In any case, considering Katrina's aftermath, I was wondering what people's disaster preparation plans were, and if they've been changed. We don't really have a disaster plan, because we live in roughly the middle of Greater Sydney. We're a long way from bushfires, earthquakes, cyclones, tornadoes etc. Our most likely scenarios a House fire Terrorist attack on infrastructure (anthrax in the water, destruction of gas or electricity supply, bombing or road/railway) This one does worry me a bit. I live a suburb of a major metropolitan city in the US. My husband works downtown in one of the Federal Buildings. My husband was supposed to be in NY on Sept 11 2001. Two of his coworkers were in the WTC the night before it came down. They watched it happen from their hotel room. Deaths of both DH and me in car accident; survival of children I think DH and I need to rethink this one. We each have our opinions regarding the ability of our parents to raise the boys if something happened to us. We had thought that DH's brother would be a good option, but my brother recently became much more stable (married, now with a little one of his own). He had been in a long term relationship when DS1 was born, and no one in the family could stand my brother's girlfriend(they broke up a couple of years ago). DS1 and DS2 are too small to be drilled in fire escape procedure, so we haven't started that yet. The thing we do need to do is rewrite our wills to cover DS2, to make sure the boys go to the people we think they ought to go to. DH and I have some things for various emergencies, but nothing is remotely organized at the moment as a result of our attempts to pack and store things as we get closer to our move (which keeps getting further away instead of closer...it's now supposed to happen at the end of December). -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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