I am so glad you posted Rohenna! It validates the nudge I felt to post the information. Perhaps it was indeed you for whom I was posting this information . I am glad you made the connection. It never hurts to be prepared and so much of our attention has been on the pandemic ( and in the US, elections) that I am not sure how prepared we are currently for a natural disaster. I hope you stay safe where you are in Victoria, I understand it has been a rough time over in that neck of the woods right now. May you and your family and friends stay safe.
I can say that since this posting I made a week ago, I have been having strong feelings of a natural disaster happening in the near future. I don't know if it is a disaster which will happen in my area or one that will happen elsewhere. I do believe something is going to happen somewhere soon.
California is currently dealing with horrible wildfires where people have had to flee their homes.
One of the wildfires in Colorado is not expected to be out until October and the major highway I 70 is still closed down, it has been for more than a week. This closure is disrupting commerce into the state from the west towards Denver and back.
I wish you well.
@lovendures relatively speaking, we are doing alright over here during lockdown - in comparison to some other harder-hit parts of the world, we are quite fortunate. I can't fathom how much anxiety must be around with the pandemic figures so high, particularly in the US. Our new case numbers are dropping and boredom is our biggest issue, so we really can't complain too much. I hope you and everyone else on the forum stays safe too.
Like you, though, this sense of something bigger that is still to come has never quite left me. After we had our terrible bushfire season in December-January this year, my sister said something to the effect of "well that's the hard part of 2020 out of the way". The words were out of my mouth before I even realised: "No, the easy part is over. Things are going to get harder now". She started to get anxious so I took it back, but I knew I was just glossing it over for her.
My deepest sympathy for all of you affected by the wildfires in the US. They sound like they are of unprecedented (2020 word of the year) intensity, and the last thing anyone needs at the best of times. It would only add to the sense of grief and disruption that is already pervasive.
Nature really is raising her head, now, demanding that we listen.
The feeling of disaster for me is that it may not be here, where I am, but it will have an impact on things like food supply, the economy...that kind of thing. I've been trying to convince my Dad to put in a vegetable garden again for the whole year, as I am in a rental - and also get the feeling that I won't be living here next year, but don't yet know why. I feel as though I will need to move back in with my parents so we can all help each other. It all feels connected to this ominous feeling.
I do want to ask, how many of you have felt that "something" (some kind of great upheaval/battle/event - it was never tangible enough to define) was coming for many years now? How many of you feel that it has begun, finally?
I've had this sense of waiting for a couple of decades now, and have spoken with friends who feel the same. And now, at the risk of being a prophet of doom, I feel like "it", whatever it is, began at the end of last year.
I hope very much it is just the result of my very active imagination! I sincerely hope that in two years time we are back to taking so much for granted, and I can just filter all of this into a dystopian novel and laugh about it.
Stay safe, all of you.
Moving this thread up again. Please look at thee first post that has a link for preparing for an emergency/disaster.
Many of you are in areas dealing with fires, but natural disasters can happen at anytime.
The feeling of needing to prepare hasn't really gone away and it has been a few weeks since I posted. It was strong again right before the Oregon fires last week and hasn't left . So again I say, I don't know who this is for, but prepare if you haven't already. Hopefully you already have done so.
My mom and I put together a lot of the stuff for an emergency evac just in case, and we did pretty well without having a good list. Some of the recommendations on this list mean that we should re-visit out stash and add a few more things though, so thank you. :-)