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Scenario: One Nuke Over Chicago
Scenario: Emergency Bugout
On the post about Katrina, commenter Chris brought up a point worth devoting an entire post to: How to rendezvous in a crisis situation when members of the immediate family are separated.
Most suburban spouses are separated for a minimum of about 45 hours a week - nine hours per day for five workdays a week. Thrown in some errand-running, children’s lessons and other activities that take up even two or three hours on a weekend, and it easily climbs to about 50. Coordinate a rendezvous between two separated adults in a crisis situation is one thing, but when you add children to the mix, things can get complicated very quickly.
Don’t Be James Kim
Lessons Learned from Katrina
Sometimes all hell does break loose, and it can do so literally right in your own front yard. That was my experience on August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina came ashore and plowed through Mississippi, inflicting damage on a scale that’s difficult for most people to comprehend (including me, and I saw a lot of it up close).
I do not live on the coast where Katrina first made landfall, so I was spared the worst of the storm. I live 200 miles inland in a residential neighborhood. What’s more, I was on the west side - the “good side” - of the eye, so what we got wasn’t as bad as what other towns on the east side of the eye got.
The power went off about 2:00 in the afternoon that Monday. For the next six hours we were wound pretty tight - looking out the windows at the ancient oaks and giant pines swaying in the high winds, wondering if any of them were coming down, and whether they would come down on top of us, and on our 4-year-old.
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