>> Oh, I'm an armchair stormchaser, not actually inclined to go out and physically follow the wild weather, though I do enjoy watching and listening and feeling the charge in the air when there's a good storm. I've enjoyed some great books on the topic, though, including a beloved gift from my honorary uncle, now deceased. <<
:D I do it primarily with books, the occasional documentary, and watching the weather radar. The latter works like biofeedback for me. It's a lot easier to cut the line when I can see the effects of what I'm doing in near-real time.
>> Growing up in Kansas, my self-appointed job was putting the cats in the basement when the sirens went off. <<
Good plan.
I like how much more comprehensive T-America's disaster planning is. They still have all the old bunkers from the Cold War and have built more to serve as storm shelters and other emergency backup. Soup events are rare, and America hasn't been shelled by other nations, but things like tornadoes and wildfires are common. So they're actually using those facilities on a regular basis.
Cities in areas of particular threat, like Tornado Alley, often pair up with another city whose threat season is in a different part of the year. That way, if they get hit, they can ship the most vulnerable people to their sister city at a time when those bunkers won't be in use. It's an efficient way to clear out ground zero so that able-bodied people can clean up the mess.
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Date: 2017-03-25 11:45 pm (UTC):D I do it primarily with books, the occasional documentary, and watching the weather radar. The latter works like biofeedback for me. It's a lot easier to cut the line when I can see the effects of what I'm doing in near-real time.
>> Growing up in Kansas, my self-appointed job was putting the cats in the basement when the sirens went off. <<
Good plan.
I like how much more comprehensive T-America's disaster planning is. They still have all the old bunkers from the Cold War and have built more to serve as storm shelters and other emergency backup. Soup events are rare, and America hasn't been shelled by other nations, but things like tornadoes and wildfires are common. So they're actually using those facilities on a regular basis.
Cities in areas of particular threat, like Tornado Alley, often pair up with another city whose threat season is in a different part of the year. That way, if they get hit, they can ship the most vulnerable people to their sister city at a time when those bunkers won't be in use. It's an efficient way to clear out ground zero so that able-bodied people can clean up the mess.
Why people don't do that here, I have no idea.