17 January 2025

Nesting

In many cases, the best response to a situation is nesting, i.e. staying inside your well-stocked house and not going anywhere. 

Nesting is a good response to situations including:

Blizzards, deep snow, deep freezes, heat waves, hail, intense rain, high winds, thick fog, tornados, flying or jumping bugs everywhere, infectious diseases in the community, bad air quality, downed power lines, wild animals on the prowl, and violent people in the neighborhood who aren't specifically out to get you (a.k.a. "shelter in place").

Nesting isn't a good response to everything. It is a bad response to:

Wild fires, nearby structure fires, floods, landslides, sink holes, natural gas leaks, poisonous gases, violent people who are specifically out to get you, and seismic events like earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions.

Coincidentally, most of the things that nesting is a bad response to are most common, in even urbanized areas, in California and/or Florida.

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