>>>>>>>>>Totally drug resistant strain discovered.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46010460/ns/health-infectious_diseases/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>LOL
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I saw that news article and thought of you in the bunker
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>LOL - Life is tough here in the Colonies.
>>>>>>>My computer system is in the basement. (below nuclear blast level)
>>>>>>>I call it the bunker, because pantry is there, too.
>>>>>>>I also keep my collection of tin foil hats handy, just in case . . . .
>>>>>>>The cats and I spend a lot of happy bunker time hiding from the flu and now, the dreaded incurable TB.
>>>>>>>Fortunately, the temperature this morning is a delightful germ killing minus 31C (minus 24F), so today it may be safe to make a trip to buy supplies.
>>>>>>>Keep your helmet on and your head down, Nicholas. ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>LOL all the way through that one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Of course we all know cats are not equipped to survive a nuclear holocaust. Or who knows, maybe they're better equipped than we are.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have a fondness for post-apocalypse movies, even though sci-fi is not my genre. "28 Days Later" was set in England after the big one and was very well made IMO. For more fun, I liked "The Day After Tomorrow" starring Dennis Quaid. After a new ice age strikes the northern U.S. he heads south to escape. There is Dennis on snowshoes, trekking south, trying to find his son, played by a young Jake Gyllenhaal. The touch of humor, always appreciated in a Roland Emmerich production, was that so many Americans were doing the same thing that Mexico had erected a checkpoint to prevent Americans from swarming into Mexico illegally, LOL.
>>>>>
>>>>>Isn't a more realistic post apocalypse The Road. All that "hopeful" stuff is cloud cuckoo land. Post apocalypse I'd move in with Bill Kuhn . He's got guns.
>>>>
>>>>Lots of them.
>>>>
>>>>Explosives too.
>>>
>>>Time to learn something - :-)
>>>
>>>As it has been announced, the USA is closer to going to war with Iran than it has been since 1988 when Iran mined the Strait of Hormooz(sic). So, . . . . just in case.
>>>
>>>Remember "Diarrhea" and you know most of the symptoms of radiation poisoning. (Yes, I took the course on this :-)
>>>Dizziness and disorientation
>>>Infection
>>>Awe (shocked, stunned, 1000 yard stare)
>>>Red blotches on the skin
>>>Regurgitation(Vomiting)
>>>Hair falling out - High fever
>>>Electrolytes disturbed
>>>And loss of white blood cells
>>
>>That's cheerful, Grady ;-)
>
>Thanks Mike :-) - We only have a minus 50 wind chill here this morning, so it's another day in the bunker for me.

Hunker down, buddy ;-) And don't you dare send that weather my way.

I guess my mind is on Janis/Jim Booth today. One of his classic posts, in one of his many jokey moods, was during a winter storm that tore up the east coast a few winters ago. He was in a jokey exchange with Dan Freeman, who at that time was in DC, and threatened to snow on him. The Snow God, he was calling himself. The huge snowstorm came and the whole northeast coast was immobilized. A member from the NY area complained -- Lisa Margolis? -- and Jim said I'm sorry, I only meant to snow on DC and New York was just in the way. Now there is someone I will be with through thick and thin.