Disaster Turned Ordeal or Adventure? Your Choice

By John Farnam

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “Every day is ‘ordinary,’ until it isn’t!” ~ Bernard Cornwell

From a friend in NY:

“While driving last evening, I saw a massive pillar of smoke erupting from neighboring Lockport. A large fire had broken-out at a tire-recycling plant.

It was massive and resulted in emergency evacuations of hundreds of surrounding homes for several blocks within the city. Flabbergasted displaced residents looked like columns of pitiable refugees fleeing a foreign invasion!

The “take-home message’ is this:

Altogether unforeseeable events can unfold with such blinding speed that we ‘ll be forced to grab whatever we can and evacuate with only a few minutes’ warning. In fact, we may suddenly find ourselves run out of town with little more than what we’re wearing and maybe what is in our car!

Accordingly, we all need to maintain a high state of personal readiness. A ‘Basic Kit’ needs to be constantly ready to go, at a minute’s notice!

That important lesson hit me square in the face as I watched!”

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