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OCTOBER 18, 2024
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STORMWARNINGS Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it, as Mark Twain allegedly observed. Since that’s what everybody else is doing, let’s talk something different here. Hurricane Helene is so last week. It’s actually so last month. Surely there are valuable lessons we can learn from the disaster we have endured. For example, next time 100+ mph winds are expected, don’t park there (see picture above). But on a more practical level, were you among the majority who felt unprepared, not only for the ferocity of the storm, but to deal with its aftermath? Odds are we won’t be seeing anything like Helene anytime soon. But we might. Or there might be another ice storm, high winds and torrential rains, floods, a tornado, or a massive heat wave that results in power outages.
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What can we do to be ready for the next natural disaster, whatever and whenever it might be? Step one: make sure you have an emergency kit ready to go. Here is a checklist of some of the basic ingredients it should contain: _ flashlight _ tarps or plastic _ batteries sheeting _ first aid kit _ toilet paper _ non-perishable _ manual can opener food (freeze dried, _ soap/hand sanitizer for example) _ medications _ eating utensils _ eyeglasses _ matches or a lighter _ water About that last item... the recommendations are for a several day supply of at least one gallon per person per day. At over 8 lbs per gallon, that can quickly get very heavy. There is an alternative. Please see STORM page 3
Ours certainly was. The October 4 Medical Examiner would have been — key words: would have been — our 439th issue, all of them published right on time twice a month like clockwork, no matter what obstacles might have come up. And snags did arise regularly. It might be a press problem one time, a major computer glitch another time. But somehow, no deadline since Issue #1 in 2006 had been missed. Before 2006 came twice-monthly issues of MCG’s one-time campus newspaper, the Beeper, from mid-1990 right up until two weeks before the first Medical Examiner. For me, that era included two separate bouts with cancer and everything that comes with such diagnoses: surgery, chemo, and radiation. Another time I broke my foot and was seriously hobbled for quite awhile. More recently I had rotator cuff surgery. Through it all every issue came out on time, and I was able to continuously fulfill my duties as World’s Oldest Paperboy, all totaled for 34 straight years. Good thing I thoroughly enjoy what I do. Who would have ever guessed that a Gulf hurricane and resulting winds in our area over 100 mph would end the run? Not me, that’s for sure. There’s only one thing that can be done at this point: start another consecutive issues string. This issue makes one. +
— Dan Pearson, Publisher
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