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covid 19 has made me go HMMMMMMM.
not the virus, the hype and mandates.
All the government control and the response of the masses over this past year has made me think a lot about what might happen when a real pandemic hits.The response of the public - the panic buying especially. As I have said before, this was a rehearsal. Indeed, the last 3-4 years has been a rehearsal for me; my heart problems, falling into the slash pile coals and getting burned, the pandemic, the economy tanking, getting laid off, the riots, the wildfire.
All the government control and the response of the masses over this past year has made me think a lot about what might happen when a real pandemic hits.
YepLima Prieta earthquake in Silicon Valley in 1989.
Snow/ice storm in the Central Sierra Nevada that resulted in no power for a week in the middle of a snowy winter.
We were lucky both times.
People died in the Loma Prieta quake. I rode it out in a data center.
We were pretty well prepared for the storms - wood stove, LOTS of firewood that we had spent moths cutting, propane water heater and cook stove, and snow for refrigeration.
we had friends who moved into a motel the first night.
Both definitely reinforced my resolve to prep.
Yep
I lived in San Jose then. I was just getting settled in for the World Series game between Oakland and LA when it hit. Building swaying, TV fell off the stand and was bouncing on the floor which made me decide to GTH out. The door was stuck till the third yank and then out onto the lawn. Neighbor was standing out there with me in his tighty whiteys. When the first big shocks subsided we both ran back inside. I grabbed a radio and a bottle of Jack. Neighbor grabbed clothes and dressed on the lawn. As the evening progressed it sort of turned onto a block party with everyone outdoors listening to radios, eating and riding out aftershocks. We were out of power for 2 days but our phones (landlines) were back up by 10PM.
We were all back inside by midnight
Yeah! The Highway 17 (Actually, the Cypress freeway) viaduct was 2 level with southbound on the upper deck and northbound on the lower. It was kind of a lucky break that the World Series was playing that day because so many people left work early to get home for the game.My older brother was in his Oakland office when that hit, he was just going out the door to go home when it hit. If he had left a few minutes earlier he would have been on that part of the highway that pancaked.