Kind of depends upon what you plan to carry. Frame packs tend to push a load higher on the back, ALICE rucks tend to carry the load on the lower back. ALICE rucks come in three sizes - small, medium, large - so your pack size will limit your ability to carry, to an extent. ALICE rucks tend to...
Evidence of survivors of major disasters like Hurricane Katrina or various earthquakes in California and elsewhere suggests that most people will find ways to survive without violence.
When I was in Houston in 1983 during Hurricane Alicia, we lost power for three days. People in our complex got...
Funny thing. FEMA - WAS - right on top of Katrina. There were rescue teams, food, and water prepositioned ahead of landfall, just waiting for the word to "go." The breakdowns were at the state and local level.
Looking at the Emergency Services end of things in an urban/suburban setting...
Neither Russia nor China has the ability to occupy us. Russia, because it's got its hands full with Ukraine and its bordering neighbors; China, because it doesn't have any way to get sufficient troops over here. It's still figuring out how to get enough troops across 100 miles to Taiwan; the...
Most doctors, perhaps, but a lot of ER docs are contractors, rather than employees at hospitals. A particular doctor may have "privileges" at several hospitals, which is not, I believe, the same as being an employee.