Sh@! Hits the fan in canada

[mmerlinn]

Originally Posted by mulder

I am writing in a spirit of peace, so don't take this the wrong way. The ground crew should be already prepared for anything. It will be wise to make preparations NOW so you can leave large cities if another war starts in January. Simply choose a place to go to (I think places around 3 hours drive away are not too expensive/tiring to get to if you have to leave at night). Pack up suitcases with necessary items now - food, medicine, blankets, change of clothes, cash, can opener, etc. Service your car & keep it full of gas NOW so you can go if necessary. Hopefully, NOTHING WILL happen, but isn't it better to be prepared now, just in case? All I'm asking is that you prepare, don't leave today as you will just end up returning home a few days later. Really, servicing your car & packing a suitcase will not take long. Several events are converging in January 2009 and this Canadian news is just the latest event.

In two days the preparations I started making over 3 years ago will be finished. Since I expect something major to happen this next Sunday (though I don't know what), I am leaving the big city on Wednesday for the mountains 5 hours away with the assumption that it is quite possible that I will never return home. My preparations are such that I think that I could survive for at least 4 years without any other human contact. I hope it does not come to that, but that is the scenario I have prepared for.

If I am premature in leaving, I will return home and remain fully packed and ready to leave again at a moment's notice. The next critical time I foresee is 40 days after this next Sunday, which is the 23rd of January, quite close to the dates being bantered around in this thread. If I wind up returning this time, I will be monitoring events on the 16th of January very closely. Should the events on that day become significant, I will again leave for the mountains.

Waiting for a war to start may be the wrong option if the war involves a foreign power nuking our cities first. If that happens, it will be too late to leave the cities. Martial law, destroyed infrastructure, hungry mobs, etc may make it impossible to travel at all no matter how prepared you are.