Are you getting ready for the war or the high alert situation?

not all that much, but I've started adding to it by refilling 2 liter soda bottles with tap water as they become empty.

I live in NYC abt 2 miles from the WTC and saw one of the towers fall while looking out of the window from where I was working at the time. I guess I'm sort of hoping that they go elsewhere, but since Osama has a hair up his a** abt US business interests, who knows. I have wondered whether the UN might be a potential target since that is just a little further than a mile due north of my apartment. Of course that is being guarded extensively.

From what I've read, the 'experts' think that a future attack is most likely to be chemical/biological in nature and that it would be released in an enclosed area with crowds, like a shopping mall. I guess a subway system would be effective, but I dont use that very much. They think they would rely on panic more than on actual damage to send their 'message'.

I sometimes wonder if the terrorists are using Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels as their inspiration. The airplane-suicide bomber occurred in one of them; a few days after 9-11 he was being interviewed on CNN and the reporter asked him abt it, and he did not respond at all. (I never saw him interviewed again.)

I saw something on the news this morning about public events could be cancelled. I am concerned about the festivities in Daytona Beach this weekend. There are huge crowds there, and will be the Busch Race, the Daytone 500, and several other races. I would hate to see the races cancelled, but would hate even more for something to happen there.
I know what you mean about them using the Tom Clancy novels as inspiration. Have you ever read "Black Sunday" by Thomas Harris? It is about terrorists with a blimp at the Super Bowl. That sort of thing scares me to death!

I haven't been out much. And I live in a suburb of B-more and there's a lot more crazies out there and in DC then there are here.

I don't feel like "prepairing" I have no clue when or if a war will happen, or what will happen to us in the USA or any country. I personally think that for the most part, humans are evil, and a big part of me feels that we should be annihalated because we are very bad for this planet, and anything and anyone which surrounds us.

I am not currently to worried, as if something was thought to happen, my family and I would be on the road heading to our "hide out" right now, lol.

I don't feel too worried, since where I am is not a big city or tactically important... but you should definitely listen to everyone and get a gas mask. And those carrier thingys they're selling for the pets (since they don't care to wear gas masks). Hopefully, it'll stay on a shelf, but better safe than sorry.

The only way war is really effecting us........ is I had to pay $2.05 for regular gas this week!

The gas prices suck!

My mom is always so positive....
"Honey, if God thinks it's your time then you're going, don't worry I'll take care of Cooper for you"

Gotta love my mom!

what! we had to pay $1.65 for gas.

looks like dr blix's speech is finished - what do you think?

part of me is full of hope....while the other part is scared. i want to go back to nz and be with my son, and not living in fear, but alas, finances dont allow it just yet.

About half the people I know, keep saying they all want to go to NZ right now.
LOL.

After all this NZ will be one of the few islands left standing =p

husband is supposed to be shipped out today She just had the baby in November and is living in Virginia. She will be moving back here in a week or two. I look forward to seeing my grand daughter. I know what it is like to be a widdow and hope she doesn't have to face that. (My first husband was hit by a car when I was 21.) Send lots of prayers that this is over quickly with minimal loss of life.

DragonLady, that sounds scary, I will keep your daughter and her family in my thoughts and prayers, and also all the others (on our side) who may soon be fighting in a war.

Wow - maybe it's being over here in Europe, but I have to admit that I haven't given much thought to retaliation in the case of war with Iraq. I've been operating on the assumption that the next big terrorist attack will be in Europe - there really have been a lot of arrests in Britain, Germany, Italy, France, etc., so something must be in the works. If I were in Israel, I'd probably have a panic attack every time I left the house. (Get the gas mask, Anne - I remember the Scuds from the last Gulf War all too well.) We've made virtually no preparations, other than to stock up on cat food, since our cat is insisting on U.S. and Canadian brands at the moment (and I have more faith in them), and I'm afraid I won't be able to get them here in the event of a catastrophe. The people in Iraq must really be on edge right now - sorry, that's an understatement, but the whole situation is beyond my comprehension. I spent half my life in one country, and have spent the second half in a foreign country, married to a "foreigner" (though here I'm the "foreigner", since we're living in his native country), and my colleagues come from all over Europe and the Americas. I just can't stand all this strife.

Thank you for your concern everyone I will try and get that mask next week. Friday it was practically impossible to get it as the lines at the protection kits distribution centers were unbelievable! At some places they had to close down altogether as they ran out of gas masks! I hear now that Powell is saying the US will give Iraq a few more weeks so I guess things will settle down at the stations for a while...

I am sorry to see so many of you feel affected At least in the last gulf war it felt safe to get out of the country and spend some time in the US or in Europe (sorry, NZ is too far away for me :tounge2: ). Now it feels like danger lurks everywhere...

Did everyone see the huge anti-war rallies held around the world? Toronto had about 50,000 people show up and I understand London had 1 million! I really prayer it doesn't come to war.

My prayers are going out to everyone in the middle east, but especially for Anne and your family!

My biggest concern is that I work in a government office and Canada is definately a target!

Adrienne, I have been following the news of the anti-war protests around the world. We've had two huge ones here in San Francisco since October, and the next one is actually tomorrow. Each one has drawn a few hundred thousand people.

They had something on the news here in Iowa about buying plastic wrap and duct tape so we could seal ourselves in one room for a few days if we had to. That is so scary...but I think I will go buy some. Just to be on the safe side.