So I just found out that swine flu does not mean bird flu. I guess a swine is some sort of pig. And no, you can't catch it eating pork. You laugh, but those were my actual thoughts when I first saw the news yesterday.
I've been recently thinking about food storage since Erik and I have really tried to stock up on things in the basement "just in case". I know its a good idea and I'm glad we do it, but lately I've been trying to imagine just what circumstances would we be in where we'd find ourselves needing 5 gallons of flour and baking soda. Not to mention that due to my oh-so-professional experience with food storage and natural disasters I imagine that we would be without power in any instance where we'd need to use the food storage. If we're without power, how do we cook? I picture having to feed my family raw flour for dinner....not a pretty picture. So I haven't done much in the way of food storage for a month or two while I've pondered that issue.
Then this whole swine flu thing started up. (I refuse to capitalize something that does not deserve the respect of a capital letter, hence "swine flu" not "Swine Flu"). And the first thing on my mind is, hey if people start showing up with swine flu in Tacoma then we will just have to stay home for a week. Or a month. Which made me want to go to Winco right away and purchase every conceivable food storage item known to man. And then I realized if swine flu does hit Tacoma and kills half the residents here we will still have power, so we won't have to eat raw flour.
But what if the people who run the power plants die, then we won't have power. Do we still have to pay rent if there's no power? How would we mail the check? The mail carrier would probably be dead too. Would we owe back rent? What if we couldn't pay because everyone at work died and we didn't have a job to go back to?
This is what went through my mind about 2.3 minutes after I found out that a swine is not a long necked goose-like egg laying bird. A swine sounds like a bird to me.
I've been recently thinking about food storage since Erik and I have really tried to stock up on things in the basement "just in case". I know its a good idea and I'm glad we do it, but lately I've been trying to imagine just what circumstances would we be in where we'd find ourselves needing 5 gallons of flour and baking soda. Not to mention that due to my oh-so-professional experience with food storage and natural disasters I imagine that we would be without power in any instance where we'd need to use the food storage. If we're without power, how do we cook? I picture having to feed my family raw flour for dinner....not a pretty picture. So I haven't done much in the way of food storage for a month or two while I've pondered that issue.
Then this whole swine flu thing started up. (I refuse to capitalize something that does not deserve the respect of a capital letter, hence "swine flu" not "Swine Flu"). And the first thing on my mind is, hey if people start showing up with swine flu in Tacoma then we will just have to stay home for a week. Or a month. Which made me want to go to Winco right away and purchase every conceivable food storage item known to man. And then I realized if swine flu does hit Tacoma and kills half the residents here we will still have power, so we won't have to eat raw flour.
But what if the people who run the power plants die, then we won't have power. Do we still have to pay rent if there's no power? How would we mail the check? The mail carrier would probably be dead too. Would we owe back rent? What if we couldn't pay because everyone at work died and we didn't have a job to go back to?
This is what went through my mind about 2.3 minutes after I found out that a swine is not a long necked goose-like egg laying bird. A swine sounds like a bird to me.
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