Goodnight, Irene

We were right along the path that Irene was due to hit.  As a member of the Hopkins "Go Team," I take disaster preparedness pretty seriously.  I was reviewing our household plan and current level of preparedness, and decided to seek Oldest Son's review to see if he had anything to add.  Since we were both at work, I sent him a list of where we stood and what last-minute things I was picking up on the way home from work.  Here is the list I received back from him:

• Also charge Kindles and iPods. Make sure Kindles are set with wireless off, and iPods are on Repeat None to conserve power.
• Unplug your laptop and printer when not in use. Mine should be fine until the outage, what with the UPS.
• Gas up the bikes too, if it’s not raining when we get home.
• Make sure any important documents exist locally, in the cloud, and on hardcopy.
• We might also want to stock up on handguns, shotguns, long-range sniper rifles, ammo, throwing knives, body armor, concussion grenades, land mines, trip wire, portable generators, ATVs and EMP devices in case the zombies, robots, ninjas, demons, secret dark magicians, clone armies, scientifically resurrected velociraptors or all of the above choose this time of chaos and vulnerability to strike.
• Oh, and protein bars. Can’t run a guerilla war against the clone armies without protein bars.