This article keeps coming back up. I know so many people in Oregon who freaked out about this and started prepping go-bags and family emergency plans. Yet nobody really thinks about it much now. Such is human nature.
A while back on this forum I explained how I have my truck camper fully fueled, stocked with water, foo, and propane. Its electrical system is solar charged but it also has a built-in generator. It’s in this “ready mode” as an emergency shelter for my family. We don’t get much warning with an earthquake.
I was ridiculed by a few folks who seemed to suggest I was a paranoid prepper. But this article and its message have never left my mind.
The older I get, the more I get more interested in the tidal flows of information
It's both misunderstood and understood.
Ex. Given a 9 year old article, look how we jump from "so many people freaked out" to "nobody cares about it now", which is vague hyperbole attributed to unnamed thing called "human nature". (Left as an exercise for the reader, which much like astrology, people will fill in that gap with any time they perceived others as not-caring)
But, we also recognize the article is reposted and on the front page again, indicating it is novel to a large subset of people.
This article keeps coming back up. I know so many people in Oregon who freaked out about this and started prepping go-bags and family emergency plans. Yet nobody really thinks about it much now. Such is human nature.
A while back on this forum I explained how I have my truck camper fully fueled, stocked with water, foo, and propane. Its electrical system is solar charged but it also has a built-in generator. It’s in this “ready mode” as an emergency shelter for my family. We don’t get much warning with an earthquake.
I was ridiculed by a few folks who seemed to suggest I was a paranoid prepper. But this article and its message have never left my mind.
The older I get, the more I get more interested in the tidal flows of information
It's both misunderstood and understood.
Ex. Given a 9 year old article, look how we jump from "so many people freaked out" to "nobody cares about it now", which is vague hyperbole attributed to unnamed thing called "human nature". (Left as an exercise for the reader, which much like astrology, people will fill in that gap with any time they perceived others as not-caring)
But, we also recognize the article is reposted and on the front page again, indicating it is novel to a large subset of people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878160 (2015 — 275 comments)
https://pnsn.org/blog/2015/10/30/don-t-be-scared-be-prepared...
https://archive.is/2roYZ