DHS advises Americans to stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape

[XRubicon]

to protect themselves against radiological or biological attack. 2/10/03

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline/

This is worth a skim about now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. No; for this we duck and cover.

Stated another way: Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

[Ligyron]

2. not again...

[underpants]

3. The guy in Connecticut who wrapped his whole house in plastic after 9/11

I can't find a good link on it other than Free Republic.

[lpbk2713]

4. What color level are we on?

They rated the level of panic like people were supposed to remember it.

[cyclonefence]

5. My mother really did

tape plastic sheeting over our basement windows during the Cuban missile crisis. We had about a dozen milk jugs full of water down there, too.