Have you bought your visqueen and duct tape yet?

[Hamletmaschine]

Have you done your patriotic duty and duct-taped your house shut with visqueen? Did you buy your 3 bottles of water?

C'mon people! Get with the program! Get behind our President! Spread the fear! The germs are out there, and the goblins'll get you if you don't watch out...!



Get your survival kit here!

 

[Lancecastor]

From redcross.org

A Word on What Could Happen

As we learned from the events of September 11, 2001, the following things can happen after a terrorist attack:

There can be significant numbers of casualties and/or damage to buildings and the infrastructure. So employers need up-to-date information about any medical needs you may have and on how to contact your designated beneficiaries.

Heavy law enforcement involvement at local, state and federal levels follows a terrorist attack due to the event's criminal nature.

Health and mental health resources in the affected communities can be strained to their limits, maybe even overwhelmed.

Extensive media coverage, strong public fear and international implications and consequences can continue for a prolonged period.

Workplaces and schools may be closed, and there may be restrictions on domestic and international travel.

You and your family or household may have to evacuate an area, avoiding roads blocked for your safety.

Clean-up may take many months.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

. . . and flag purchases will increase dramatically.

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

what brand name duck tape should be baught?

if Bush can get sponsers for this war, it could cut down the budget.

 

[MissTaken]

Nawww

Sorry.

I think I would much rather breathe shit than suffocate myself by sealing my family into house.

Just my two cents....

I did buy water though as there has been a water main break and we can't drink the tap water for a few days.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Exactly, MissT! If we make an airtight room there's not 3-days worth of oxygen in there (note to self: bring the plants) and if we don't do it in advance it will hold the same stuff they're warning us about. I think the Bush and Ridge children probably own stock in 3M and any other duct-tape manufacturers. What a ludicrous notion that was...

Shall we tape ourselves in the bathroom or were they going to add big slop buckets to the kits?

 

[cymbidia]

You know--i've got a whole different reaction to the question of using visqueen and duct tape. It's a basic part of my toy bag. Uh, toy bags.

Waste it on windows?
I don't think so!

 

[Silverluna]

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

I must have missed something but...

Once you've sealed your windows and doors so no chemical or bilogical agent gets in and you've done the job poperly then....


What do you breathe when the air runs out?

 

[LukkyKnight]

What do you breathe when the air runs out?

Carbon dioxide. It helps a LOT to be a plant.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

You know--i've got a whole different reaction to the question of using visqueen and duct tape. It's a basic part of my toy bag. Uh, toy bags.

Waste it on windows?
I don't think so!

Cym!!! How's tricks? I hope you've been well.

(And thanks for tips. I may have to do my patriotic duty, after all. )

 

[ksmybuttons]

The best technology for air filtration we have is a hepa filter. What would be it's effectiveness rating?

We have hepa filters on both the house and the motorhome. The motorhome is kept in a constant state of readiness so we can leave for fun at a moments notice. It carries its own water, has its own generator and a constant food supply and would be very ineffective as a safe haven as it is not air tight. Living in an older home, the house isn't either.

Oh well, I don't have delusions of being a re-builder. All I want is some good music, good company, good food and a place to rest if the world ends. And I want to end with it.

 

[cymbidia]

(And thanks for tips. I may have to do my patriotic duty, after all.)

Need some help? Of course you'd have to come all the way up here from all the way down there. I can't breathe that fog y'all call air.

Then again, if we're all safely sealed inside visqueen and duct tape fortresses, none of us will have to worry overmuch about breathing anything after a short time.

How wrong is it for me to feel kinda turned on by the words "visqueen and duct tape fortresses"?

Hi Hamlet.
It's good to see you, too.

 

[70/30]

I think someone has stock in 3M. Otherwise more money would be allocated to the Coast Guard (only $90million more than 9/11) and customs/port security (port of LALB only $5million more than 9/11 despite 43% of the country's cargo entering). Chemical lobby...

http://www.brook.edu/views/op-ed/ohanlon/20021231.htm
• Secure America's Ports and Harbors. As Senator Bob Graham has argued, port security remains America's Achilles heel. Each year more than 7.5 million containers enter the U.S. The adjoining Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach alone handle more than 43 percent of America's cargo, well over three million inbound containers annually, including critical industrial and petrochemical supplies. Only about two percent of these containers are inspected, leaving literally millions of opportunities for smuggling weapons of mass destruction and other terrorist tools into our cities. That basic fact cannot be changed this winter, but other precautions can nonetheless be taken.

• Step up measures to guard toxic chemical plants and trucking. The Bush administration has left it to the private sector to protect the chemical industry. As argued by Peter Orszag of the Brookings Institution, that is not an adequate response, given the serious consequences to the country as a whole that could result from a major attack. In the short term, some chemical plants need to adopt safety practices closer to those of nuclear facilities. Chemical/toxic transportation firms should lock up their trucks and do background checks on their drivers. Again, what is needed from Washington is a combination of clear mandates as well as some financial and technical assistance.

 

[Ginny]

Have you bought your visqueen and duct tape yet

i kinda over bought said items for Hurricane Lili.....so needless to say....i'm ready!.....<giggling>





i might need some more vienna sausage though....hmmm...