This is only a test.
Feb. 5th, 2004 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beetigerThe phone rang about 9:30 this morning, with a recorded message telling me that they would be testing the siren for the Indian Point nuclear facility at 10:00. Except for occasional bouts of activism every year or two, I usually try to forget that I live moderately near a nuclear plant with known safety issues. I groaned, since that's just about baby naptime, then proceeded to fret about how I would hook up with bard_bloom in an emergency, how we've laughed about the ridiculousness of the local government trying to convince people not to jam up the roads by placing a sign for a "nuclear evaculation bus stop" down the road from us.
It's the first time I've thought about having to get out of the area in a hurry since the baby arrived. Not only that, 10 am is baby naptime, so I figured we'd be off-schedule.
10:00 came and went with no siren sound. About 10:15 or so, there was a quick noise that sounded a little like a small truck beeping its horn once in a friendly way, which I suppose might have been the siren. I wouldn't have even noted it if not for the phone call. So the result of the siren test, from my point of view, is this: I'm worried that if there's a nuclear meltdown, I won't notice.
bard_bloom in an emergency, how we've laughed about the ridiculousness of the local government trying to convince people not to jam up the roads by placing a sign for a "nuclear evaculation bus stop" down the road from us.It's the first time I've thought about having to get out of the area in a hurry since the baby arrived. Not only that, 10 am is baby naptime, so I figured we'd be off-schedule.
10:00 came and went with no siren sound. About 10:15 or so, there was a quick noise that sounded a little like a small truck beeping its horn once in a friendly way, which I suppose might have been the siren. I wouldn't have even noted it if not for the phone call. So the result of the siren test, from my point of view, is this: I'm worried that if there's a nuclear meltdown, I won't notice.
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Parenting Tip For Quick Motion
Date: 2004-02-05 10:18 am (UTC)Have a small bag, with one or maybe two changes of clothing, a few diapers, one of those tiny portable boxes of wipes (the clamshell plastic kind, you probably can get them as 'samples'), and any meds the kid consistently needs (like the gas drops). Put one in *EACH* vehicle. This is not your diaper bag -- that comes in and out. This bag lives in the cars -- constantly. This is for those days when you're suddenly out of the house longer than you thought, or the kid is working overtime on their 'Cause Laundry' skill.
This has the added benefit of meaning you *can* just duck and run without worrying about grabbing anything else.