I was reading the Long-Term Preparedness board several weeks ago and was taken in by a few predictions about August 22nd. Basically, Iran was going to answer the UNs nuclear questions with a strike against Israel thus bringing on world war three and ending life as we know it.
August came and went… we’re still here…
People have been predicting the end of the world since the beginning of the world and most have been way off. As anyone who frequents this site knows, we can prepare for many future problems (seen or unseen) with a few basic tools, supplies and skills. Just the acknowledgement of potential scenarios is a step in the right direction.
The problem (one of them anyway) for those of us that believe “something” is going to happen is, our predictions are usually wrong.
I don’t mean to single out those among us that thought August 22nd was the date. I still think an Iranian nuclear strike on Israel is a possibility. I also think another Katrina type storm is likely. Why not be prepared?
Many of my neighbors (and most of the American public I think) get alert and then relax so often they are turning to apathy or denial. One neighbor told me I had only encouraged him to waste $10 on gallons of water last fall when we never had the big snowstorm I thought he should be ready for. Now the water “tastes like plastic” and he dumped it, and doesn’t plan to replace it.
The point of this... Friends, family, neighbors, the government, all seem to loose interest over time when nothing bad happens and are caught off guard when it does. How do we, as people who try to be and stay prepared, keep others from getting “battle fatigue”?