RE: Fwd: Price of Gas; Now Duct Tape etc- sense ofhumor

This actually might fix a few problems if it actually worked- the
environment might even get a chance to regenerate?? Who knows??

Theresa

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Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] Fwd: Price of Gas; Now Duct Tape etc- sense ofhumor


Theresa, I am thinking there is a very Darwinian thing going on with that.

DF

Theresa- yahoo wrote:

> Do you suppose that IF everyone sealed up their houses with plastic and
duct
> tape (assuming this were possible)- then only us crazy gardeners with too
> many plants inside to count would be the only people to survive, as
everyone
> else would run out of oxygen first??
> : )
> Theresa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On
> Behalf Of Marge Talt
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:28 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Fwd: Price of Gas; Now Duct Tape
>
> You're absolutely correct, Scottie - much more useful information
> could be disseminated if the object were to really prepare people for
> an emergency.  My take is that people have no real clue what to do in
> any emergency, not just nebulous terrorist attacks, so they panic and
> go out and buy stuff to be doing something.
>
> I don't think you need to apologize, nor should you spend a lot of
> time stressing.  Until or unless we are told something specific,
> there is nothing to fear but fear itself as Roosevelt noted.
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
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> ----------
> > From: Scottie Baugh <scottieb@mindspring.com>
> >
> > I'd wondered about the oxygen source, too, Marge.  Some store
> shelves here
> > are bare of plastic and duct tape, though.  And worse, people are
> buying
> > World War II surplus gas masks.  I wonder if citizens think their
> local
> > governments aren't doing enough, thus the panic?  Or if people just
> have no
> > idea how to protect themselves and are grasping at straws.  Seems
> like
> > information on how to decontaminate your family, or how to treat
> victims, if
> > only to make them comfortable, would be more useful.
> >
> > On the other hand, I guess the companies that manufacture duct tape
> and
> > plastic, and the stores that sell it, are having and economic
> upturn (wicked
> > grin).  And those supplies would be useful if one's windows were
> blown out
> > or the roof leaked.
> >
> > I'll apologize in advance; I don't mean to offend anyone, I just
> make jokes
> > to relieve my own fear and stress!
> >
> > Scottie
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:09 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Fwd: Price of Gas; Now Duct Tape
> >
> >
> > > No, I am most definitely NOT, Scottie.  And, I am highly annoyed
> at
> > > this 'sky is falling' panic buying because it's making it
> difficult
> > > for me to get my normal cases of spring water (to which I am
> > > addicted).  The plastic and duct tape is ridiculous.  As was
> pointed
> > > out in a letter to the editor in the Wash. Post, by someone whose
> > > head is attached correctly...if a person did succeed in sealing
> their
> > > abode enough to prevent any type of poison gas or other airborne
> > > contaminant, they would then be excluding oxygen and soon die
> from
> > > lack thereof.  Well, our sainted admin. can only cry 'wolf' so
> > > often......
> > >
> > > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > > mtalt@hort.net
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> > > ----------
> > > > From: Scottie Baugh <scottieb@mindspring.com>
> > > >
> > > > With my Kroger card at the grocery store, paid $1.49.9 for
> > > "regular" Monday
> > > > (2/10) in League City, TX (just south of Houston).  But it's
> gone
> > > up since
> > > > then.
> > > >
> > > > I'm curious, is anybody buying plastic and duct tape?  We're
> not as
> > > we can't
> > > > possibly seal the boat; we already have all the other items on
> the
> > > list as
> > > > part of the permanent hurricane kit.
> > >
> > >
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