Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Thinking about surviving in Florida without power, gasoline or food or air conditioning or drinking water

I'm thinking a lot of older people who didn't leave aren't going to make it or are going to get either heat prostration or die because they can't get their medicines from hospitals and pharmacies. People who are healthy below age 50 likely will find some way to make it through these times one way or another. But, especially those who need air conditioning to not go into heat prostration likely will either have to get in a car and turn that air conditioning on or drive away if that is possible to some place that does have air conditioning, gasoline, food they can buy, water they can drink, clean clothes not soiled by the storm since last Friday or Saturday when power went out then. Because if the power is off you can't really wash large amounts of clothes, (especially if your water main was cut by a tree falling down that cut your water line (or your sewer line or both). So, it also likely smells pretty bad from broken sewer lines and from latrines dug in people's yards that they had to do in order to relieve themselves in a sanitary way. Hopefully they have shovels to throw a spade of dirt upon each number two deposit in the dirt latrine.

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