http://thesurvivalmom.com/2009/11/28/excuse-du-jour-nothing-bad-is-going-to-happen-silly/ Survival is a Mom's Job!™ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:25:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thesurvivalmom.com/2009/11/28/excuse-du-jour-nothing-bad-is-going-to-happen-silly/comment-page-1/#comment-1905 Barbara Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:48:09 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=562#comment-1905 Bad things DO happen here. Lets look at the last century; a Great Depression, two World Wars and several other smaller "military actions" (though not fought on our soil still a great impact on us, and millions of our own people dead), Gas shortages of the 70's, Mount St. Helens, California earthquakes, several severe (though not devestating) Hurricanes. This century opens with yet another war, a really horrific hurricane, and of course foreign terrorism. They're bad enough one at a time, but imagine several at near interval to each other combined with the economic crash we all see coming. For all the nay-sayers who snort "But it can't happen here," I say look at Yugolslavia ; a healthy modern area, that even hosted the Olympic games, now war-torn and rubble strewn. Look at the beautiful Asian and Pacific rim shores wiped off the map by a single Tsunami. Highly motivated modernizing China impacted by a horrendous widespread earthquake. Oh yeah. It can happen here. And if your neighbors don't get out the machetes like they did in Uganda, consider it a good disaster. Bad things DO happen here. Lets look at the last century; a Great Depression, two World Wars and several other smaller "military actions" (though not fought on our soil still a great impact on us, and millions of our own people dead), Gas shortages of the 70's, Mount St. Helens, California earthquakes, several severe (though not devestating) Hurricanes. This century opens with yet another war, a really horrific hurricane, and of course foreign terrorism.
They're bad enough one at a time, but imagine several at near interval to each other combined with the economic crash we all see coming.
For all the nay-sayers who snort "But it can't happen here," I say look at Yugolslavia ; a healthy modern area, that even hosted the Olympic games, now war-torn and rubble strewn. Look at the beautiful Asian and Pacific rim shores wiped off the map by a single Tsunami. Highly motivated modernizing China impacted by a horrendous widespread earthquake.
Oh yeah. It can happen here. And if your neighbors don't get out the machetes like they did in Uganda, consider it a good disaster.

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