Well, for Honey he needs his glasses even more then you Spirit.  For me I don't know if it would be good not to have batteries for my hearing aides.  My meds yes I have thought about not having and that isn't what bothers me.  What I have thought of is what will happen to our dear pets.  Lets say they survive whatever the major thing is.  Will we be able to get the food they need or will we have to watch them die.  Or even worse will we have to kill them to keep them from suffering more?  Our Poopies are on prescription dog food.  If that runs out and we can't get more....  Our sweet skinks eat a bigger range of food but still will we be able to get food for them in time?  Our frogs eat crickets.  The only ones that we have plenty of food for are the fish.  They have heaters and filters that will need the electricty that most likely will be out.  I have often wondered how people who do survive the major events will survive surviving.

If something major happened, I know with all that's wrong with me, not just the need for pain medications, but antibiotics for chronic lung and sinus infections and tonsilitis, and asthma medications that are desperately needed if I have a full blown asthma attack from coming into contact with certain allergens. 

 

And yes I do worry about my dogs, really. but in the face of life and death for human beings, they must cared for as best we can and with as much compassion and love as we can spare.

 

The onasis is on the word (spare), as my first priority beyond my own instinct for self-survival, would fall to my grandchildrens well beeing and their survival and then on to my children who are old enough to fen for themselves, but crucial in attaining the necessities to care for the grandchildren. 

 

As for the dogs, I woulc put them down as quietly and painlessly as possible, if absolutely necessary.  If I knew an old woman who had no family to help and need food, or a young mother of little one in the same predicament and did not have support of family close by, I could not possibley give food to my darling pets to save them, while refusing it to a child or a mother of father of children that need their parents just to live.

 

On the other hand, I try very hard to have somethings thought out and ready if we could ever possibly prepare for some catastrophic event either in a physical  or an emotional way.  I keep a huge water can in the house and a kerosene heater, many flashlights and spare batteries, some canned foods in advance, a little extra medication for headache, burns, injuries, soap, paper products, radios, candles, etc., etc. buy, mainly I pray nothing ever happens that  I need call on these things to survive or to have to try to help others.

 

One of the scariest things of all, would be not being able to communicate with my family and children if communications were down, which, no doubt they would be, however, depending on the enormit of the situation.

 

Mainly I just pray it will no happen, and that I all all the ones I love will have the strength, preparedness and courage to survive and to care for their families.

Not sure I worry about it much at all, anymore... Have plans, and back up plans, and so on, just in case.

 

Comes from growing up in earthquake country and being an only child of a single mother living way below the poverty level. You learn some things.

 

I spent years learning nature survival techniques... it's fun stuff to know. Really.

Shadow any stuff you can share with us?