You said it well....I had lurked and saw a few join and decided that I really should finally. I've been involved with emergency preparedness in some way since I was about 13 years old. I had been somewhat regularly reading the forums and found its people to be very mature and open minded. They are not interested in bad mouthing people or ideas. They point out good and bad things and let you decide for yourself. They show people respect. It is nice to know that posts have been deleted for things that are not appropriate. This is high quality. I just saw a few others join and finally decided to do so.