Thank you Victoria. I will be watching for your website. I learned a lot just from what I have read on this site even though it was older info, it gave me a lot to think about and to see about some things I will be needing that will help me as well.
Everything I wrote here about preparing is exactly what I do. The articles here were written as I thought about this and that - the book is orderly, easy to find what you want. It still doesn't have an Index but the publisher can get that done fast with a computer program to do that and it would take me a loooong time to do that as the book is like a reference book of 360 + pages, double spaced like agents/publishers want it, 12 font; and with the Index, should be close to 400 pages, unless they try to cram it together - I will insist on having a say on the size of the font - a book is useless if you have to read it with a magnifying glass. There is also a Chapter for Seniors and their eyesight may not be good so I will not stand for tiny print. Seniors need to live, too. Did I mention I am 84?
Since I had to do solid thinking that four months it took to write it, writing every day and falling in bed exhausted every night, I was living it in my mind, reliving the many times going through hurricanes and tornados, living without power, and if, while researching for the book, I found a new way to do something, I put it in there. I did put more information in the Medical Chapter. It is really, really, really, long.
I felt compelled to write the book for others. It is my effort to save God's creation - mankind when their lives are threatened. There is no doubt I could have saved the eight elderly people in the Florida hurricane who died from heat in a nursing hone. There is no doubt I had a way for all people in those hurricanes in Texas and Florida and Puerto Rico, to find good water in a town/city with no water. Do you have a Silcock key? If you don't know about this key, let me know and I will write about it here - I know it is somewhere in these articles on Survival Podcast.
I write here as Victoria. My name is Marcella Derrick.
