I have been watching the ash cloud from the recent eruption of Russia's Shiveluch volcano with some interest. The thing that strikes me most is how slowly things move. As preppers we all have those worst case scenario dramas we like to play out in our imaginations where we drop everything and rush to survive, but really the process of survival is agonizingly slow, and likely favors the methodical. We didn't notice the event until a day or more after it happened and it will likely be yet another day before the ash cloud actually hits the Coast. The weather people are saying they don't expect ash fall on Alaska, but airline movement is likely to be disrupted for a week or longer. My imagination wanders, how should I be responding right now if this had been a mushroom cloud and not just Volcanic activity?
