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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> My thought is if city people are starving and come to rural areas
> looking for food, then they could be housed and put to work farming for
> everyone's benefit. Even my small place could house another family.
> During the Depression when my grandfather was out of work my mother's
> large family was housed in a relative's barn. In the two back-to-back
> 500 year floods I've been through here I was amazed at how well
> community worked together for common good in a crisis, when they don't
> necessarily do that on a day to day basis. I am hearing the same from
> friends in their ice storms. I think there will be a lot of compassion
> if things get really bad.

That's my hope for hard times. A community pulling together, and I think my 
community would all pitch in. If I thought I'd have to hide alone in a 
bunker and shoot anyone who approached my property....well, that's a world 
I'd prefer not to live in.

Lynn Wigglesworth