(Taken from a Facebook thread I commented on, where OP was concerned that the news was showing disaster preparedness.)
Just be aware and stay informed. Have an emergency plan and supplies. Any breakdown in the global supply chain from oil moving through the straight of Hormuz to a shipping freeze from Asia suppliers, to a trucker strike in America, can leave shelves empty very quickly. In chile they build their apartments to sway with the Earthquakes because the ground moves like liquid, quite often. I have never experienced it, but in LA they know what tremors feel like. Oil Fracking near Oklahoma City has been linked to a massive increase in daily seismic activity in that area. Most earthquakes and natural disasters go unnoticed but sometimes their location and proximity to cities can create massive casualties and destruction. In 2013 a volcano went off in Argentina and people took pictures of what looked like a giant figure in the ash. Hours later 4 massive earthquakes struck Nepal. That very hour the entire city was crushed and over 8000 died. Footage from climbers on Everest hit with an avalanche appeared on YouTube and the whole world experienced this collective disaster. I wonder if thousands of years ago someone "saw" this in a vision and interpreted it as The End. Perhaps endings are only new beginnings because we are constantly building a better tomorrow, despite the darkness around us which we have pushed back with light. It's not so scary out there anymore, but nuclear weapons certainly are something to be concerned about. I say turn it all off, it's too toxic. If we don't do it while we can, it's only a matter of when not if, a natural disaster causes a nuclear disaster so great that it is an end. Elon Musk for instance believes we need to get off-world and set up a second human colony, and I tend to agree. Earth was hit really hard by a gigantic meteor in Africa and the impact crater can still be seen from space in google earth.
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26271;I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.;Dave Chappelle;funny
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26273;It's funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.;Corey Feldman;funny
26274;It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I've been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It's just 'cause we're all named Emma. None of us look alike.;Emma Roberts;funny
26275;I don't really have a type of guy I like. It's just like nice guys, cute boys I mean, ones that are funny.;Emma Roberts;funny
26276;But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.;Robert Downey, Jr.;funny
26277;I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.;Rachael Ray;funny
26278;And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.;Drew Brees;funny
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26280;We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.;Matt Groening;funny
26281;Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.;Matt Groening;funny
26282;I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.;Dane Cook;funny
26283;I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.;Jimmy Carr;funny
26284;Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.;Lee Trevino;funny
26285;Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.;Thom Yorke;funny
26286;We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.;David Walliams;funny
26287;I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show.;Andy Cohen;funny
26288;I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.;Frank Carson;funny
26289;It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.;Michael Haneke;funny
26290;'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.;Michael Haneke;funny
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26292;I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.;Paul Feig;funny
26293;For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.;Paul Feig;funny
26294;I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.