Weaksid, I fail to see how you miss anything thats going on, You don't sleep long enough.

Well, we are at the 'orange' alert level, just one down from 'red'.... not good...

it's the end of the pilgrmage(spellign) to mecca, and they are expecting terrorist attacks in both the USA and Israel... USA is worried about Chem/Bio, but there has been a lot of talk about a dirty bomb or two popping off though they do know know where they would be located. 2 weeks ago the DOD, Homeland Defense and the Administration sent out a public warning for everyone to be ready to leave where they are located at a moments notice, also threw in leave the nation of residence, but I guess someone thought about it afterwards and how utterly stupid that is to tell the American people, were would we go ? I guess someone flubbered and should have made sure we were told the city or state...

Anyway, yeah its for real, Homeland Defense told people to stock up on foor, Commercial Grade Plastic rolls and ductape in case of a chem/bio/DB attack near you. Well close, if it is to near hang it up...

It's an "Orange Alert"... so don't eat any oranges.

Oh my wife is getting to meet Rudy Gelioni??? Anyway, old mayro of NYC tomarrow and on friday Patch Adams. both are speakers at the HHS services convention in CA.

I'd like to pick their brains about all this stuff...

What are you driving in? Golf cart?

The sky is falling........the sky is falling! said Chicken Little. At least this gives the new Homeland Security boys something to do with their phoney, baloney jobs.

My wife was plagued by one of her coworkers that was preaching the government recommendations: flashlights, batteries, food for three days, double checking the seals on your windows and doors. She, herself was going after work to buy duct tape to seal her windows.

I was like, how farking stupid would you have to be? 3 Days worth of food? Have you seen the US government clean up *anything* in three days? As for power outages we have freak, terroristic thunderstorms and rogue, falling trees that force us to the sad extreme of keeping an DC light source already.

Middle of Winter, all of your house's orifices sealed tight for 'safety', and a three+ ton air pump shoving all the great, chemically and bacterially UNfiltered air into it. Unless you still heat your house with some sort of wood-burning/water-boiling system, fresh air is being pumped in from somewhere, and I dunno of any system guaranteed to filter Anthrax or Ricin. Fact is, (and Jafo can back me up, i think) building codes *require* venting of some sort, pretty much ruling out the hope of hermetically sealing your house.

I want so much to go from house to house, laughing at all the paranoid people sealing their windows with duct tape. You might as well wear a aluminum (spelling Amer-i-KAN) foil hat to protect against mind control. On the other hand it would have been even funnier to see the reactions of Americans if the government had asked us to turn off our heating/air conditioning in the event of an attack. What? How dare you mandate discomfort!

Yes, Baker....most domestic wall structures are porous to varying degrees, except perhaps for the glass itself.

Chances are....were you to completely seal your house totally...you'd suffocate before you ran out of 3 days of food....

Ah, duct tape is an all purpose fixer upper so it's always good to have on hand. But as for sealing up one's house with plastic sheeting, might as well tell people to build bomb shelters in their back yards again for all the good it'll do if there was something really serious going on.

All one has to do is consider the containment measures used by the CDC in their labs and then figure if plastic sheeting and duct tape really would suffice. (BTW, AFAIK, ricin is a poison that has to be ingested orally. Not suitable for aerosol type dispersion like some other stuff.)

That's true da_zman, that could be possible. Anything is possible. By what I read, they still think Bin Ladin is still alive. I think they killed him or he ran out of air in his tank.