{"id":316,"date":"2005-09-27T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T23:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=316"},"modified":"2005-09-27T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T23:09:22","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-the-worst-that-can-happen-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/09\/what%e2%80%99s-the-worst-that-can-happen-man\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the worst that can happen? Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if some terrorists decide that Colorado Springs is a target and they set off a dirty bomb or other WMD? After all, we do have Cheyenne Mountain, Pikes Peak, The Air Force Academy, and other symbolic places. But, they don\u2019t often appear in movies.
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\nThen, I could imagine a lot of panic, mass evacuations, traffic jams, people scrambling to get as far away from the Springs as possible. We have a limited number of roads leaving this area. Not sure that I would worry about leaving right away unless the winds weren\u2019t favorable. Then it becomes the snowstorm scenario of being trapped in the house for a week, probably without power or communications.<\/p>\n

I did just remember that we have 50 gallons of water in the water heater to use, if needed.<\/p>\n

Unless there is a complete breakdown across the state and\/or country, we should be able to manage a week or two before venturing out. By then, the traffic should be manageable.<\/p>\n

We try to keep the truck topped off with its two tanks of diesel. I think we have about a 400 mile range, with the horse trailer, before we need to fill up again. I wonder if we should plan to tow one of the cars behind the trailer. Nah. That may be excessive.<\/p>\n

If we need to evacuate right away, I expect we would head north, towards Denver. My preference would be to head in to the mountains, since I figure that anything drifting in the wind would not be going uphill.<\/p>\n

Rather than Denver, I will head up Mt Herman<\/a> Road<\/a> and make for Woodland Park<\/a>. The Rampart Range Rd<\/a> shouldn\u2019t be too congested since it is a rutted dirt track. The truck can make it, but the horses might not. (Providing it isn\u2019t winter.)<\/p>\n

Winter adds a bit of complexity to the problem.<\/p>\n

I think for an evacuation scenario, I need to acquire some land somewhere that we can retreat to. A mountain lot would be good, but inaccessible in the winter. A place out east, on the plains, may be more useful, year-round.<\/p>\n

Load up the truck with food and water for people, dogs and horses, load up the camping supplies, and take off.<\/p>\n

I wonder if I should keep a stash of 50 or so cartons of cigarettes on hand for trading supplies.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Mad Max time\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What if some terrorists decide that Colorado Springs is a target and they set off a dirty bomb or other WMD? After all, we do have Cheyenne Mountain, Pikes Peak, The Air Force Academy, and other symbolic places. But, they don\u2019t often appear in movies. Then, I could imagine a lot of panic, mass evacuations, … Continue reading What\u2019s the worst that can happen? Man?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-preparing-for-the-worst"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-56","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}