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Keeping an emergency kit is sensible in all sorts of circumstances - we've seen enough flooding & other weather damage here in the UK over the past couple of years to know that sometimes things can just happen that cut off utilities and people have to survive as best they can for a couple of days.
Having said which, I admit that it's something I haven't got round to myself - though the camping kit is ever-ready in the cupboard (includes sleeping bag, first aid kit etc), and I *do* keep enough tinned food to last a few days.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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There has been massive flooding in the midwest.
These emergency kits are in response to that.
Clean water, first aid kit, whistle and so on.....
Don't you think it is good for children to be able to learn to gather the things that could facilitate rescue if say... they were forced to the roof of their home to escape rising water?
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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yusime
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Location: United States
Registered: April 2008
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If we were under attack it would be on every channel on television. People are constantly told to be ready for anything with an emergency kit. Its just an advisory warning. So I don't think we have much to be concerned with right now, don't include politics in that one we should always worry about that in the United States.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him a spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Reminds me of "Duck and Cover"
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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God, I remember that. Slide under your school desk and fold your arms over your head. Yeah, that'll protect you from a nuclear explosion!::-)
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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It also seems to be the panacea for flood, tornado, terrorist attack, sudden stomach cramps, etc
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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