A practical suggestion

[mjbee]

I live in southern Indiana and we're being ripped up by tornadoes. I happen to live in a mobile home. I knew we were in a high-risk area today, so I spent the afternoon scrubbing out the area beneath our concrete stairs. Stocked it with 5 gallons of drinking water in case we got buried under rubble, and a radio and a flashlight. Then I ran through a tornado drill with my dogs. Well, a tornado hit about 8 miles north of here, but me and the dogs (and the cat, in a pillowcase secured with a twist-tie) were safe and secure in our little cave beneath the stairs.

The moral of the story is: Make sure you have a plan for disasters and do drills. It could save your life and the lives of those you love. If my grandchildren had been here, they would have been safe.

 

[Bladestunner316]

I could not agree more whether its storms, earthquakes and yes comets or terrorists we should all have an emergency plan first aid kits etc...

 

[Puritan Sailor]

Come on Nathan, Comets????

[Edited on 5-31-2004 by puritansailor]

 

[Bladestunner316]

Patrick,
If you must see evidence and I do say this is a rare event in and of itself but as you know we live on a planet in a solar system which has metoers and comets that fly into our atmosphere all the time and some just big enough to cause damage: such as ......



Meteorite wrecks houses in India
At least 20 people are reported to have been injured after a meteorite crashed to Earth in eastern India.
Reports say hundreds of people in the state of Orissa panicked when the fireball streamed across the sky.

Burning fragments were said to have fallen over a wide area, destroying several houses.

An official in Orissa said the authorities were assessing the damage and trying to recover what was left of the meteor.


Reports from Kendrapara district in Orissa, where the meteor came to Earth, said windows rattled as it passed overhead.

"It was all there for just a few seconds but it was like daylight everywhere," one resident said.

Rarity

Experts estimate about 100 tons of extraterrestrial dust grains fall to earth each day.

Occasionally, a dark pebble or fist-size object will rain down, with boulder-sized objects or bigger being a historical rarity.

The only recorded fatality from a meteor was an Egyptian dog that had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in 1911.

Seven decades later, scientists recognised the dog had been struck by a meteorite from Mars.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/3146692.stm

Published: 2003/09/28 17:39:10 GMT

© BBC MMIV




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[Bladestunner316]

I can hear them singing it in texas

but all joking aside I understand that comets are a rarity but until 911 we didnt really think of attacks on our country like that would happen and neither did we think about being prepared for an event like that. so its best to look at all possibilities just look at scripture no one thought a 'flood' would happen and they didnt prepare look what happened to them????

See what im saying patrick??

blade

p.s. I know im weird but thats me

 

[JohnV]

[quote:f9a5447b60]that would be a cool country song. "My dog got hit by a meteor" [/quote:f9a5447b60]
It would prove that it's an old song, because Meteors haven't been around since the days of the Fargo truck. Ford used to make them. It would be akin to a modern lyric saying that, "MY dog got run over by a Tiburon"

When I was a kid (I can just hear my kids saying, "Oh, here we go again with one of those 'When I was a kid' stories ) we were diggin in a new line from the cistern to the house. About six feet, or so, from the house we came upon a vary strange stone, one that clearly did not belong to our area. I was too small to know what my Dad did with it, but he did come home with the news one day that it had been determined that it was a meteor that had landed in our yard. No one knows when.

It's funny how I had forgotten about this incident until I started reading this thread. I remember being scared for a few weeks because it landed so close; that's why the impression has stayed with me, I guess.

 

[Me Died Blue]

[quote:5e662b6f71][i:5e662b6f71]Originally posted by Bladestunner316[/i:5e662b6f71]
p.s. I know im weird but thats me [/quote:5e662b6f71]

One of my favorite sayings is that "[i:5e662b6f71]Everyone's[/i:5e662b6f71] weird in their own way!"

In Christ,

Chris

 

[FrozenChosen]

Paul, don't you mean:

"My dog got hit by a meteor[b:00b2f5de79]ite[/b:00b2f5de79]?"

Or perhaps the country singer wouldn't know the difference.

 

[mjbee]

I was really talking about tornadoes and earthquakes, which we have here a lot, being on the New Madrid fault. Ya'all people with children need to know what to do in storms, earthquakes, and fires, and your kids need to know, too. Yeah, your dog getting hit by a space rock is funny, but a fire or a tornado killing your family is not funny. Why are you making fun of my post? Do you think you'll escape disasters, even though you've refused to prepare, just because you're elect? God gave you a mind to think with, and a heads-up. Go ahead, make fun of me. I'll be in my little concrete cave when the tornado blows the house away!

 

[tcalbrecht]

[quote:3025bca536][i:3025bca536]Originally posted by FrozenChosen[/i:3025bca536]
Paul, don't you mean:

"My dog got hit by a meteor[b:3025bca536]ite[/b:3025bca536]?"

Or perhaps the country singer wouldn't know the difference. [/quote:3025bca536]

Well, techncially if it hit the dog before it hit the ground it's a meteor. :bs2:

 

[FrozenChosen]

Negative:

Meteor = in space
Meteoroid = entering atmosphere
Meteorite = atmosphere to ground