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Old 08-29-2023, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by DAVES View Post
These posts always remind me of the Twilight Zone where a guy is building an atomic fallout shelter and his neighbors are laughing. Then comes a warning of a pending attack and his neighbors all want to get into his shelter.
That’s one of the problems with the weather channel and others jumping immediately to DEFCON 1. If everything is going to be a disaster but the disaster rarely occurs then I learn to ignore them the next time.
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