Believe it or not, I’m actually not ragging on you this time. 
Take another look.
Yeesh. You’re all acting like your from Auvergne or perhaps Pays-de-la-Loire.
In any event, perhaps I was wrong to raise a personal mod squabble in an unrelated thread; I won’t do that again. However, it did give us all a chance to see who can evaluate the merits of an argument without letting personal issues get in the way (Liberal wins, everyone else loses). And QED got to show his asws some more, which is always a joy.
I anxiously await the follow-up PSAs encouraging parents to have a plan in case the Pied Piper of Hamelin shows up and leads all their kids into a cave. I mean, it will be equally useful.
Having a disaster preparedness plan, whether it’s for a natural disaster like a flood or a hurricane, or for a man-made one like a terrorist attack, isn’t really a bad idea, even if, hopefully, you’ll never have to use it.
Planning for a flood or hurricane makes some sense. Planning for something as vague as “a terrorist attack” makes no sense. What sort of attack? A hijacking? NBC attack? Bombing? Shooting spree?
Awwww, shit. :smack:
Well, there is a Paris, Texas.
That’s a heartwarming story, and an excellent cautionary tale, but most people don’t raise their kids inside high-rise office buildings. I suppose it makes sense to follow Rescorla’s plan if you live in a high-rise condo.
What it shows is that Rescorla was right and that you were wrong. And while it applies to this company, families would benefit from a little bit of foresight as well - especially if they live in an area at some risk from this sort of thing.
As it stands, we have emergency supplies at home, these supplies are staged so that they can be loaded into our van in short order if needed, and we have arrranged a rendezvous point far outside of Washington so that we can meet up away from danger if something happens while I am working. This isn’t terribly hard to do, it isn’t overly paranoid and it applies to a wide array of emergencies we might have to face here.
Whichever it is, it’s against the rules, IIRC. Leniency is granted in certain instances, like when reporting a thread started by a blatant troll.
I object to being linked with Texas in any way, shape or form. That’s hate speech. Reported.
I’m sorry- you appear to have mistaken me for a Port Authority official. I’m not. Although I did visit Manhattan once.
In any case, having a plan for evacuating a (clearly) at-risk skyscraper and having a plan for a generic terrorist threat against a generic target are not exactly the same thing.
I am fully prepared for a terrorist attack (or any other disaster/tragedy), and all I have is one item: a baseball bat. Can’t go looting without it! Well, you can, but then you end up cutting your arm on the broken Bloomingdale’s window.
That’s not entirely true. I do have one other plan to prepare for a terrorist attack. It’s called “Don’t hang out in a building that’s being attacked by terrorists”. Other than that, I’m not really sure what the fuck I’m expected to do.
I just read PC(John Hodgeman)'s book and its pretty funny. He’s clearly more likable than Mac and thus I feel good about my PC-usage.
I think I read somewhere that the Mac campaign ran into this problem in one of the countries it was run in (using different actors than in the American ads). People had a negative view of the guy playing Mac based on some other character he had portrayed. I don’t remember where though.
Any attack that would cause widespread chaos or disruption of services. It’s not that you can do much to stop or minimize the actual attack, just like there’s not much you can do to stop or minimize a hurricane. But, you can make sure you and your loved ones have a place to meet if you’re seperated. You can make sure you have food, potable water, and a generator, if your access to food, water, and electricity are cut off. None of these things are terrorist specific, of course, but having done those things will help provide you with security in the event of a disaster.
Sure, but what do disaster supplies have to do with preparing a terrorism “plan of attack” with your kids?
Nothing, it’s just the government pretending it’s doing stuff to make us feel safer. Again.
Because in the event you and your kids are seperated and normal transportation and communication systems go down, it’s good to work out some place to meet or some way to communicate to each other that you’re all safe.
That might mean saying, “In case you get lost, let’s meet at the oak tree at the park”, it might mean teaching them alternative ways to get home (“If the 9 bus isn’t running, you can take the 7 bus and then transfer to the crosstown 26”), it might even be so simple as making sure your kids know your office’s phone number and address as well as the numbers and addresses of other people they can go to or get in touch with in case something happens to you. (“This is how you get to Aunt Irene’s…”)
These aren’t terrorist specific, but they’re general disaster/emergency readiness things you can do to help keep you and your kids safe. Remember, when something bad happens, people panic and don’t think clearly. By knowing what to do when there’s an emergency, you can save your life and the lives of the people you love.