If a disaster is predicted and you don't get out of the way immediately, you're probably going to get stuck, one way or another, 4WD or not.

One think that tends to irritate me here (sorry, guys) is that so many seem to think that if there's a major disaster, THEY will be practically the only ones heading for the hills, mountains, woods, etc.

GET REAL, FOLKS! This isn't the America of the 1880s or even the 1940s. This is America of 2006: we have 300 MILLION people here. We have an average of 80 people per square mile. Does this sound like wide-open Davy Crockett country to you???

If you're headed up the forest service roads, exactly where is it you're heading? Are you aiming for the same patch of timber that a few hundred other people are aiming for? Do you think that everyone else is so dumb that they're just going to sit in their cars on the freeway or turnpike until they turn into mummies?

And how long do you intend to stay there? How much food and water did you manage to pack into the Bronco with your wife and three kids and everything they felt they had to bring along? Do you plan on living off the land with all the other people up there? There isn't going to be a deer or elk or rabbit there within three days.

Planning ahead? Okay.... where do you plan on going from THERE???

Sue, who is in a really pi$$y mood right now