Bert is the turtle's name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_Cover_(film)

" I don't suppose that you and Blast can do a segment on Oprah's show?"

I would rather see Doug Ritter, Martin Focazio and Blast together on her show. Blast provides the situation, Doug and Marty provide the instruction on how to prepare for it.

Sue

Still, at least one person is learning useful survival stuff from me. My four year old daughter caught the second fish of her life this weekend.

She caught it with her bare hands!

-Blast

Two fish in 4 years, sounds like you need to find a new fishin' hole; the one yer usin' is about wore out.

You might also think about gittin' yer kid her own pole. Handicapping her like that ain't gonna help her chances none. Besides, if'n she's noodlin' cats at her age, she's more like bait than a grappler, don't ya think?

I told you that if you starved the children, they'd learn how to feed themselves. You might try giving her a little bit of equipment, though.

Seriously, My congratulations to your DD1!!!!! She's done good!!!!

I vote for Blast, Wildman and Doug to appear on the Britney Spears Preparedness Special with Guest Stars: Les Stroud and Lindsey Lohan. Same useful information. Better comedy.

I would change the wording a little. Yes to the first sentence. However, the second sentence should be changed at the end from "prepare" to "survive", "adapt", "deal with", or something similar.

"Run screaming from" was the wording DW suggested, then after thinking about it more she decided Doug and Marty would be too smart to be in a room with me and a camera.

-Blast

I guess after the "rice scare" left the headlines survival prep quickly went back to boring. After all, why prepare until you know for sure the storm is coming your way? Makes sense to me.




http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/05/29/hurricane.prepare/index.html

I think there are a lot of things that go into the idea that there is a new interest in "survival" and preparedness. But one of the things that should be considered is that we need to think about this stuff at all. Being able to do many of the things we not think of as preparedness or survival skills, we just things more people did and knew how to do in the past. I doubt you can find a single garden in the neighborhood in which DW and I bought a house. I doubt you can find anything else being raised for food within a mile of that house, except for maybe an occasional fish coming out of Long Island Sound. I also doubt you will find as many people now with have mason jars of preserved foods within twenty miles of there as you would have forty years ago, even though today there are a whole lot more people living there. And canned goods, I doubt you'll find as many in peoples homes too. A lot of this stuff is something that people with an interest in survival or preparedness are learning how to do, while a large percentage or prior generations just knew without a special interest.

There's other stuff that goes into it, like Katrina, shortages, etc., but a lack of the fundamental knowledge past generations had is also part of the equation.