Reading Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell was enlightening for learning that most folks don't go Mad Max when disaster strikes. But the cops and the political leaders sure do.
This thread makes me remember the 880 freeway collapse in Oakland after the 1989 earthquake. So many people were out there just helping. Digging through the rubble. Getting people OUT. Racing against the clock…
My co-op RV park community has an emergency preparedness committee & plan, and we talk to the city and county about how we will all work together when disaster comes to our town. We are a community.
If they could set up phones to do txt message passing, where a messege would go out to neatby phone and keep going out until it hit a cel tower, that would really help.
This is why I can’t enjoy The Walking Dead. Warlords, sure. But everyone constantly trying to murder everyone else rings false.
Everyone should get their ham radio license and at least a small handheld radio.
It's such a great book! An excellent complementary read is "Humankind" by Rutger Bregman
Probably because both professions self-select for those type of sociopaths
