Ooooh. Lighten up guys! We all have choices, and I for one would choose to go my own way. We're only talking about a couple of days, three at the most before returning, or finding alternative accommodation. If I had the choice of sleeping, eating and living in a communal temporary school / village hall along with a whole bunch of other people, or taking equipment I've spent years collecting, and years learning how to use properly to a location that I feel a lot more comfortable with then I'd choose the latter.
OK, I'd inform the authorities of my intentions. But there's no way I'd voluntarily add to their burden of care when I didn't need to.
The word sheeple was coined shortly before Y2K in America to describe the masses who'd follow each other around looking for leadership when tragedy strikes. It is a generic term now used for people who just follow when ordered without thinking of the outcome or consequences. It does not include the disabled, poor, disadvantaged or any minority group, unless members of the aforementioned have a similar mindset - and that's what sheeple are, individuals with a specific mindset.
These are individual choices and these choices may differ in other circumstances. If the emergency were a fire risk or explosion, I'd go to the school for a while (with my rucksack) and only go bushcrafting if I knew I wasn't getting back into my house until the following day or later. Even then, I'd let the authorities know what I was planning and take it from there.
Some of us do fantasise about how we would react in any given disaster scenario, so what? I like to fantasise, about lots of stuff. It's fun. Call me nuts if you like but I say again, fantasising and planning for emergency situations makes me feel safer. Certainly safer than relying on my local authority's emergency management team to pull me from the mire. I have contingency plans for all sorts of scenarios. Some are fun to plan but very unlikely to manifest themselves, and others are more likely. Some I have planned to execute alone and other more likely and serious situations are planned with community and neighbourhood watch in mind. There's nowt wrong with being prepared and it doesn't make me a doom sayer either. Also please don't imagine for one moment that I wish for anything bad to happen just so I can live out my fantasy. I'm fifty six years old with arthritic knees and I just don't need the hassle. I might not even survive a bad situation, but it won't be for the lack of trying.
Good responses so far folks, keep em coming.
Eric
OK, I'd inform the authorities of my intentions. But there's no way I'd voluntarily add to their burden of care when I didn't need to.
The word sheeple was coined shortly before Y2K in America to describe the masses who'd follow each other around looking for leadership when tragedy strikes. It is a generic term now used for people who just follow when ordered without thinking of the outcome or consequences. It does not include the disabled, poor, disadvantaged or any minority group, unless members of the aforementioned have a similar mindset - and that's what sheeple are, individuals with a specific mindset.
These are individual choices and these choices may differ in other circumstances. If the emergency were a fire risk or explosion, I'd go to the school for a while (with my rucksack) and only go bushcrafting if I knew I wasn't getting back into my house until the following day or later. Even then, I'd let the authorities know what I was planning and take it from there.
Some of us do fantasise about how we would react in any given disaster scenario, so what? I like to fantasise, about lots of stuff. It's fun. Call me nuts if you like but I say again, fantasising and planning for emergency situations makes me feel safer. Certainly safer than relying on my local authority's emergency management team to pull me from the mire. I have contingency plans for all sorts of scenarios. Some are fun to plan but very unlikely to manifest themselves, and others are more likely. Some I have planned to execute alone and other more likely and serious situations are planned with community and neighbourhood watch in mind. There's nowt wrong with being prepared and it doesn't make me a doom sayer either. Also please don't imagine for one moment that I wish for anything bad to happen just so I can live out my fantasy. I'm fifty six years old with arthritic knees and I just don't need the hassle. I might not even survive a bad situation, but it won't be for the lack of trying.
Good responses so far folks, keep em coming.
Eric