[MR] Random thoughts on recent postings - 2 topics

[Gerita della Mara]

Amen, Chagan!

First: our kingdom Chirurgeon has a great class on preparing for 
emergencies at events.
Second: I'm happy to help with a 'database' type preparedness 
list...it's my job, after all.
and third: as soon as we begin hearing from those who need help, we 
definitely need to get off the other topics and do what we do best 
....help each other!

Gerita


On 8/28/2011 3:05 PM, Karen Summerfelt-Hume wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
>      After spending some time reading through a majority of the recent posts
> I thought I'd share some ideas/comments on them.
> 1. The assorted versions of the Merry Rose thread.
>       We ran the gamut on levels of courtesy on that one and that's actually
> quite natural.  What is frustrating is the inabiity, in many cases, of
> reading into the post the proper nuance and emotion behind the senders
> post.  It is not always obvious to the casual observer that the writer is
> joking.  You can only do so much with punctuation, full caps, abbreviations
> (many of which make no sense to some of us) and  other methods of attempting
> to get across a message that is meant to be read as something other than
> just a statement.  The simple solution is to think before you respond and
> always respond in a civil fashion.  I would suggest putting the disclaimer
> JUST JOKING FOLKS in large letters and full caps at the end but that seems
> silly and not everyone reads every message in its entirety.  Mostly I think
> too many people shoot from the lip and the fires start.  Just think before
> you hit SEND, please.
>
> 2.  The flurry of 'How To' comments for dealing with everything from cooking
> to flushing caused me to think we just might do ourselves a kindness for
> future emergency situations if folks collected and compiled solutions and
> suggestions for dealing with disasters such as floods and hurricanes.  One
> thing I noticed was the difference in how people could deal with emergency
> situations depending on where they lived and what resources they could tap
> into.  SCAdians live in all forms of housing and neighborhoods, at varying
> levels of financial status and varying physical capabilities. Wells vs
> public water, apartment to suburban home to farm, pets and children or not,
> Coastal or inland, high ground or sea level - those are all things that will
> affect how you need to respond to an impending disaster. So it should most
> likely be a broad spectrum list.  If folks would be interested in such a
> list I'd be happy to get it started.  It wouldn't be fancy unless someone
> with lots more computer savvy than I have would help but perhaps it would
> help someone next time Atlantia experienced a natural disaster.
>      * I was delighted to see how many folks found ways to reuse items like
> the 5 gallon plastic buckets or kitty litter containers as opposed to going
> out and buying something similar that was created and labeled for a specific
> situation.   For those who haven't had or used one - the portable, chemical
> camping toilets are wonderful!  The only drawback to them is they've
> streamlined the design so you really need to put the potty on a raised
> platform or stand for ease of use.  So sayeth one whose knees are creaky and
> cantankerous.
>
> Just my 2 Tugriks worth.  I also have my own collection of helpful hints to
> share.... it's a start.  It's 3:00 in northern Bright Hills and the sun is
> out but the wind is frisky, still.  We've had a lot of wind and rain but not
> overwhelming stuff.  Minor power blips - just enough to have to reset the
> clocks, again.  Time to look to those who got hit badly and see what we can
> do for them.
>
> Chagan
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