“…big run on chain cutters that week.” LOL RufusJ! That has been on my list …to get better ones. Current ones are not adequate and we’re in a heavily forested/twisted roads type area.
Obviously WILDFIRE has and will continue to be a terror for us. Well experienced in that…unfortunately.
Winter storms….some of them actual BLIZZARDS dumping feet of snow. DH and I once hand shoveled our entire driveway… snow 3′ deep. Plow guys can’t plow up hill in that. Driveway is hundreds of feet long. Took us DAYS…and we were a lot younger then. Now we make sure to park a vehicle down near the road. At least we can sled down and dig it out from there…and not be trapped. Haven’t been having the major snow totals in recent years. Honestly, except for the intensely heavy labor of digging out our selves and our animals, blizzards are a piece of cake…..as long as the power stays on and no one has a medical emergency. No guarantees tho, are there?
Flash flooding/lightning strikes…we have them at our place but they haven’t been bad enough we can’t drive thru the inches [not feet] sheeting over the driveway from overflowing pond. Pond can absorb a lot. But one of the valleys has some real earth-movers sometimes. Towards rear of property so doesn’t affect the driveway.
‘Course my idiot horse nearly drowned herself one stormy night…and I did not dive in to help her. You have to know when to assist and when to keep your own skin intact. Nothing my puny self could have done. She did manage to right herself …untangle from fence she’d been trying to jump over [only cuz she wanted to be with other horse and couldn’t wait for me a few minutes…idiot!]. I did spend the next hour or more in pouring rain and lightning, cleaning and fixing up the scrapes and gashes she’d self-inflicted. Lightning is super dangerous up here too.
MtLions, big coyote packs, bears, feral dogs….weird feral 2-leggeds….
Lesser chance but MUCH greater impact: Nuclear attack, EMP, Civil Unrest [only if we’re in the city for some reason], we’ve had a few Shake-Bang type earthquakes..no damage. No hurricanes…tsunamis. 🙂
Economic Disaster….that’s one that does concern me.
Threat most on my mind lately: Getting Too Old To Adequately Respond To Any Of The Above…. 🙁
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