76F and 99%RH at 830am.\u00a0 That’s pretty cool, and means we may have turned the corner into Fall.<\/p>\n
Even a cat1 hurricane will wipe your community off the map if you’re not built for it.\u00a0 Cat5?\u00a0 Well, we live in an age of outrage over the tiniest slight, the 24\/7 news cycle, and the amplifying power of social media.\u00a0 Doesn’t mean that SCIENCE is nothing but exaggeration.\u00a0 F4, richter scale, cat scale-all defined by stoic guys in lab coats long ago.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7438035\/Canada-braces-hurricane-Dorians-landfall-damage.html<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7439991\/Hurricane-Dorian-knocks-power-hundreds-thousands-hunkered-Canada-homes.html<\/a><\/p>\n Talking with the kids and looking at the headlines from the Bahamas, (which we’ll see for one or two more days, then they’ll get a handle on the press), oldest asked where the preps would be to keep them safe if we lived there.\u00a0 I told her we’d prep differently if we lived there because the threats are different.\u00a0 We’d have evacuated.<\/p>\n Take a few minutes to REALLY think through what Abaco is like right now, and in two weeks.\u00a0 Those people aren’t able to go anywhere.\u00a0 There is NOTHING there for them.\u00a0 Imagine a city with all the bridges destroyed, and no power or water.\u00a0 Lots of cities in the US are essentially islands.<\/p>\n Add people in the surrounding area shooting any infected trying to leave as a plague takes the city.<\/p>\n [Insert clever segue]\u00a0 to ebola– not an omnibus, but just a few quick headlines from allafrica.com<\/p>\n Why is that important<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It’s still spreading.<\/p>\n\n
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9-Year-Old Tests Positive For Ebola in Uganda<\/h6>\n