Emergency Preparedness.

I was walking down one of the main concrete tunnels beneath the academic health center, delivering a package to the shipping dock, when I looked down to see a small case of bottled water. The case has been there for at least a week now, and I'm starting to think it's been forgotten. I'm happy that it's been forgotten though, because looking at the water I got to thinking about something that concerns me, and I think in a post-Katrina, post-9/11, post-35W Collapse society, there is a certain feeling that, "terrible things can happen at any minute."

Suppose for instance, as the trope says, that Zombies finally did rise to feed upon the living. We would need access to clean and safe water, as to avoid potentially catching whatever disease the creatures had, as well as to deal with the potential water-system shutoffs that could happen with alarming ease. I can imagine a group of rag-tag survivors coming upon the bottled water with hope, then tension as they figure out how to ration it.

I strongly hope that the case of water remains to help us survive any possible eventuality.