I like most everyone around me now a days is surrounded by thoughts of an impending apacalyose. World ending catastrophes are about the most mainstream point of view as well. How could they not be? we all came of age in beautiful desolation of Charelton Heston's masterworks, Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes 1&2, and the Omega Man. You only need to watch the beautiful title sequence by the great Saul Bass to wonder how far in the future are we really?
Then came zombies...
Now doomsday preppers.
I live in Southern California, and I was in Los Angeles for the big Northridge quake in 93. and I was also in the bigger loma prieta quake in northern California five years earlier.
I went through a personal stage of dispair during which I fed upon the writings of Col. Rodger 'Coot' Hardee who was an unapologetic survivalist. I come from Michigan where we had our share of hard core survivalists ready with their bugout escape plans. The northern Michigan wilderness was Hemmingways muse for a time as well. So I did a bunch of research about surving disaster. and I studied group dynamics, and I was in a number of genuine disasters in addition to earthquakes , and I was witness to a tornados destruction close up, and a tsunami, and a few other hairy situations. I learned to shoot a hand gun. I owned a shotgun for personal protection. Did you know that you can shoot at zombie targets at practice range. They come in an impressive array of characters. Pizza boy, secretary etc. and they are realistic to the point that you'd forget that you are firing at human siloutte. Make it easier to shoot straight if you can do it with a smile, eh? Zombies.... I was wating for that moment when it all came crashing down.
Then I realized that before I started choosing my shelter site in the Santa Monica mountains I should check my earthquake supplies. I have built them up over several years; food for 3 days, water, light source, batteries,
Cash! $300 in Cash is going to go a long way. No ATMS! If you do nothing else to prepare for your local disaster do this; Keep $300 in small bills where ever you can accece them in at safe place. Under the mattress perhaps?
Northern lights seen farther south than usual
Northern lights seen farther south than usual
Atlanta (CNN) -- The northern lights came to the Deep South on Monday night, making them visible hundreds of miles farther south than they normally would be. Scientists call it a coronal mass ejection. To the rest of us, the brilliant shades of green, orange and red that danced across the night sky might simply be called beautiful or eerie. The northern tier of the United States -- places like Seattle, Minneapolis or Boston -- is normally the southern limit for the solar flares, meteorologist Jim Branda at the National Weather Service office in Memphis, Tennessee, said. But on Monday night, the display -- also known as the aurora borealis -- could be seen as far south as Oklahoma City, Memphis and Atlanta. The light show was caused by a solar outburst. "A storm on the sun's surface was blown off, and the solar wind scattered it," Branda said, explaining what created the natural light show. "The energy and magnetism interact with the earth's atmosphere and the magnetic field." The Twitter universe lit up with comments. Some said the display was "stunning," while others called it "wonderful." Enjoy it while you can, Branda said. The southern light show normally only happens once every three or four years. If the sky is cloudy, it might be seen only once every 10 years in southern states, according to Branda
Atlanta (CNN) -- The northern lights came to the Deep South on Monday night, making them visible hundreds of miles farther south than they normally would be. Scientists call it a coronal mass ejection. To the rest of us, the brilliant shades of green, orange and red that danced across the night sky might simply be called beautiful or eerie. The northern tier of the United States -- places like Seattle, Minneapolis or Boston -- is normally the southern limit for the solar flares, meteorologist Jim Branda at the National Weather Service office in Memphis, Tennessee, said. But on Monday night, the display -- also known as the aurora borealis -- could be seen as far south as Oklahoma City, Memphis and Atlanta. The light show was caused by a solar outburst. "A storm on the sun's surface was blown off, and the solar wind scattered it," Branda said, explaining what created the natural light show. "The energy and magnetism interact with the earth's atmosphere and the magnetic field." The Twitter universe lit up with comments. Some said the display was "stunning," while others called it "wonderful." Enjoy it while you can, Branda said. The southern light show normally only happens once every three or four years. If the sky is cloudy, it might be seen only once every 10 years in southern states, according to Branda
Historical Revolutions and Sun Spot Cycles
The following paper is timely and interesting from a scientific point of view in general and from a psychological standpoint in particular. The present European war is well termed a world war, the greatest war of nations on the records of history, a war shaking social organizations with their conflicting instincts and passions to the very foundations. This world maelstrom in which nations, large and small, are caught unawares is fraught with events no one can foresee, with consequences no contemporary can conceive. We have the good fortune of living in one of the greatest epochs in the history of mankind. Revolutionary changes are taking place on a gigantic scale under our very eyes without our realization of their trend and significance. We are in the midst of the mad whirl of this raging world hurricane so that our mental vision is obscured, our mind is paralyzed by the very magnitude of the furious struggle of frenzied social and psychic forces. No scientist, no statesman can forecast any of the consequences, or estimate the meaning of the profound and extensive transformations rapidly taking place in the nature of society and man. This much we seem to feel and know, that humanity is in labor with big events which are far beyond our ken, that society is in the throes of a new social order the character or even the outlines of which cannot be discerned in this infernal confusion of supreme struggle of social elements and human passions. Man and society are now being forged into new forms, hammered by Vulcan blows of war and revolt.
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