"the GWB (gorgeous wife babe) thinks disaster preparedness is just for delusional paranoids."

I have a slightly different problem. My recent casual references to family preparedness (ie a "We should make sure we have at least a few days of food in the house no matter what, don't you think, Hun?") had the effect of *making* my GWB paranoid. Her reaction was "Why? What do you kown? Is something going to happen?"

I tried to 'splain that no, I don't have anything in mind - we're not in a flood/hurricane area, not near or downwind from any major terrorist targets, not in a big city where riots might start, not sitting on a fault line, etc. but don't you remember how the very day we moved into this house we had a severe thunderstorm that knocked out power for three days?