[fabsroman]

Okay folks, lets realize that this is a disaster, and a huge one.

Now, I can also say that a ton of Americans are unprepared for anything, me included in the food category. However, I have plenty of guns, ammo, and bottled water. The food situation will be remedied as soon as I complete my garage.

I used to make fun of my parents for having cases of canned beans and cases of pasta in the basement taking up space, but now I see that a person needs to go through a war such as World War II or a natural disaster like Katrina to appreciate things and be prepared for these types of things. If anything ever happened here, everybody in my family would head to my parents place.

As far as your friend ranting about not having food or water, does she have a car? If she has a vehicle at her disposal, she should have the ability to drive somewhere, even if it is several hours away, and get food and water and haul it back. In fact, with one such drive, even if it is 10 hours each way, she should be able to load up the car or truck with enough food to last a month if she can afford to buy the food and she can afford the gas. Last I checked, I could probably drive 7 hours on a tank of gas, so two tanks of gas should be able to get her somewhere to the north where food is available.

Now, if she doesn't have a car, gasoline, or the funds to afford to drive that far and buy that much food, then she is in deep trouble.

That brings me to another issue. Most Americans live pay check to pay check and from what I have heard, the average American has $16,000 in credit card debt. Again, poor preparation for tough times.

While the government is to blame for some of this stuff, there is only so much the government can do. Should we any of us survive a nuclear war, would we expect the government to be at our aid the next day? This hurricane is almost the equivalent of several nukes property damage wise. Thank God it wasn't as deadly on a life scale. Americans in general are just not prepared for bad things to happen.

My entire life, my parents have always been saying that if war ever occured on American soil, Americans would have a tough time dealing with it because we are soft. Now, I am starting to believe them.

With that said, I'll have my garage stocked with several months worth of canned and dry goods just in case something happens.