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    I don't have a vapocolypse "go-bag". My pack would contain a much different set of survival tools. I have two packs waiting to be filled with guns, ammo, first aid/medicine, flashlights, water and purifier, food, duct tape, matches/lighter, knives, etc... Most of the stuff is sitting on a shelf in my basement.

    Never thought about vaping supplies, though. At that point, amidst the chaos, I'll probably just grab a few cartons of cigs from a looted gas station on my way out of town. I heard that smoking makes you less appealing to "zombies".
     

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    I like my women like I store my e-liquid.
    Aging in a rack away from direct sunlight.

    [joke is atrocious, I apologize sincerely in advanced]
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    This implies there were jokes somewhere in this thread that were not atrocious. I don’t see one personally.
     
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    I don't have a vapocolypse "go-bag". My pack would contain a much different set of survival tools. I have two packs waiting to be filled with guns, ammo, first aid/medicine, flashlights, water and purifier, food, duct tape, matches/lighter, knives, etc... Most of the stuff is sitting on a shelf in my basement.

    Never thought about vaping supplies, though. At that point, amidst the chaos, I'll probably just grab a few cartons of cigs from a looted gas station on my way out of town. I heard that smoking makes you less appealing to "zombies".
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    When it comes to natural disasters in the places I have lived for most of my life, to me serious ones just didn't occur very often. I did go through some bigger earthquakes from around the early 50's to the mid 60's in the Rocky Mountains... and more common and bigger earthquakes in the mid 60's to mid 70's in California. But none of them were what I would call life threatening to me and mine even though they were to many other folks closer to the source. The ex wife and I rode out the biggest one we suffered in 1969 that was a double whammy about a half hour apart that did considerable damage to our house. But the big one there came in 1989 years after we left the Bay Area with 67 dead and nearly 3800 injured. So we dodged that bullet.

    I lived in the St. George area for the first 6 years on the desert. In 2005 a flood there took out quite a big swath of a neighborhood not too far down stream of where I lived on higher ground (until 1998) and an 18 hole golf course. The normally small and tame Santa Clara river swelled due to massive thunderstorms in the mountains north of there. It took out 28 homes and damaged many others. At the same time the Virgin River that the Santa Clara river emptied into right in St. George also ran wild from thunderstorms in the Zion's National park area northeast of there and took an additional 18 homes and damaged 200 others.



    Fast forward and where I have lived for 21 years (Capitol of Sin) that is billed as one of the safest areas of the United States when it comes to natural disasters. Those likely to cause the most concern in this area is earthquakes, but large ones are very rare here. Occasional monsoon thunderstorm lightning started forest fires on the nearby mountains are a concern for the folks that live there. But the main thing that was a natural disaster for the most folks in the 27 years I have lived on the Mojave Desert was due to flash flooding. The 100 year storm flood in 1999 here caused lots of property damage, and some lives were lost. But the up to two monsoon seasons per year possible here have seldom been a major concern to me, with the occasional lessor flash floods just being old hat since I have avoided living in the flood zones. For 10 years a large landscaped dry 'lake bed' right outside my front door has been there for flood control. So I don't feel a need for a 5 minute 'emergency bag'.
     
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    When it comes to natural disasters in the places I have lived for most of my life, to me serious ones just didn't occur very often. I did go through some bigger earthquakes from around the early 50's to the mid 60's in the Rocky Mountains... and more common and bigger earthquakes in the mid 60's to mid 70's in California. But none of them were what I would call life threatening to me and mine even though they were to many other folks closer to the source. The ex wife and I rode out the biggest one we suffered in 1969 that was a double whammy about a half hour apart that did considerable damage to our house. But the big one there came in 1989 years after we left the Bay Area with 67 dead and nearly 3800 injured. So we dodged that bullet.

    I lived in the St. George area for the first 6 years on the desert. In 2005 a flood there took out quite a big swath of a neighborhood not too far down stream of where I lived on higher ground (until 1998) and an 18 hole golf course. The normally small and tame Santa Clara river swelled due to massive thunderstorms in the mountains north of there. It took out 28 homes and damaged many others. At the same time the Virgin River that the Santa Clara river emptied into right in St. George also ran wild from thunderstorms in the Zion's National park area northeast of there and took an additional 18 homes and damaged 200 others.



    Fast forward and where I have lived for 21 years that is billed as one of the safest areas of the United States when it comes to natural disasters. Those likely to cause the most concern in this area is earthquakes, but large ones are very rare here. Occasional monsoon thunderstorm lightning started forest fires on the nearby mountains are a concern for the folks that live there. But the main thing that was a natural disaster for the most folks in the 27 years I have lived on the Mojave Desert was due to flash flooding. The 100 year storm flood in 1999 here caused lots of property damage, and some lives were lost. But the up to two monsoon seasons per year possible here have seldom been a major concern to me, with the occasional lessor flash floods just being old hat since I have avoided living in the flood zones. For 10 years a large landscaped dry 'lake bed' right outside my front door has been there for flood control. So I don't feel a need for a 5 minute 'emergency bag'.

    Land that is cheap and unpopulated because it’s dangerous to live on gets bought by a developer who populates it and runs away with the money before everyone there is devastated by his handiwork. Government has to step in and spend multiple times more money saving lives where it can. Government creates a program to keep people from building in dangerous areas. Developers sabotage it and keep killing people for money. Government makes the program into a permanent quasi-welfare system that keeps rebuilding houses after they are destroyed because it’s better than letting people die, and they can’t stop the developers from keeping them from solving the actual problem. The right calls it welfare, the left calls it corporate welfare. They’re both correct, the developers are still getting rich killing people and the people are still dying. At least it’s fewer of them. I guess. Me? I bought on high ground.
     

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    It's probably gangrene, cuffs rubbing the skin can be problematic.
    No point in making cookies unless you like to eat cookies. Or just bake them. My sister is like that. She likes to bake. She also likes to count things. Says it’s a similar thing. Calming. She had to back off that one. There was too much bread.
     
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    Skeebo

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    No point in making cookies unless you like to eat cookies. Or just bake them. My sister is like that. She likes to bake. She also likes to count things. Says it’s a similar thing. Calming. She had to back off that one. There was too much bread.

    My sister says that about folding clothes. She is the only person I've ever seen who enjoys laundry day.
    And, she makes the most amazing fried chicken. She knows all of my deceased mother's recipes and I swear she makes all of them better.

    A little added tidbit, I don't think Jennifer Aniston is attractive at all. She looks just like my sister.
     
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