How the Gulf Oil Spill changes our lives...

[edina]

I'm wondering if anyone else is thinking about the larger ramifications of everything that is going on in the Gulf?I've had a few conversations with the people around me and I thought I might share with you some of the concerns that have been popping up surrounding this event.Even if our lives look somewhat normal, now, there is simply no way this event will not impact us. It is already impacting us, environmentally, economically, culturally, not only here in the US, but globally. Sometimes we can get away with dancing around the issues of the Pole Shift, because there is still room for doubt, it hasn't happened yet. However, we cannot do that with this oil spill/oil volcano. It's a done deal, it has already happened. It's not speculation, it's an experienced fact.Earlier this week, in several posts all over the ning, people were sharing their intense feelings of anxiety, grief, overwhelm. Many of us having been having dreams, and guidance to prepare for refugees, for vast numbers of people being displaced here in America.I think we would be wise to pay attention to our inner selves on this. I feel we are being prepared to ready ourselves to deal with this. Experts on refugees, feel free to speak out....Even without a New Madrid, or West Coast event, this oil spill will likely lead to a mass exodus of the Gulf Coast, Florida, most of the southern states, and perhaps much of the Eastern seaboard.Imagine what that looks like.There are preparations under way by numerous agencies for evacuations of these areas. If you live in these areas, this is something you are likely thinking about. In the video that Pan posted earlier today, it was mentioned about how the people are trying to figure out what to do, where to go, how to respond to their lives being wrenched from them unexpectedly.This is how so many of us will be feeling, in stages, as the Pole Shift events unfold.One of the things that tends to happen when someone brings up the grim reality scenarios, is that we very often want to comfort ourselves out of the discomfort. I know I do, anyway.But, I want us to reconsider this. We need real ideas, real thinking, real action plans and options, I suspect we need to talk about this openly, and honestly, without ducking under cover from the discomfort this type of discussion causes us to feel.Imagine the ramifications, poisonous clouds of gas wafting up out of the gulf over land, it is already happening. People finally accepting that they need to leave for the sake of their children, first a trickle, then in larger numbers, then en masse.People with no money, no food, no shelter, hopeless.Disruptions to gas deliveries, and all that entails.Schools closing, companies closings, people refusing to go in the areas they fear are contaminated, this is already happening.Loss of the support of the infrastructure and services as more and more people, and companies see what's going on and leave, which may eventually mean people stranded in strange places. There is so much to mentally prepare ourselves for.The Z's encourage, first action step, know where you are going, make a plan. Deal with reality as it is, not as you hope it will be, that sort of thing.Some of us live in the areas immediately affected, more of us live in areas that will be affected soon after the immediate areas. All of us will eventually be affected.Anyway, this is just to get the ball rolling, lets build some game plans here, together,