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I'm waiting for you to start the zombie thread.

Would fit under the "pandemic" classification, so (NBC)...Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, etc. (with category depending on outbreak).

Personally, unless a zombie virus is airborne, I'm fairly confident we wouldn't see a zombie apocalypse. Bites are a notoriously inefficient way to spread a disease... If you look at the worst past cases, it's a common thread.

where did the OP get the stats for the class level events? Oh, and by the way, 08 has come and gone, and no WWZ yet, : (

What about an all-out? When all of it happens at once?

I really dont understand peope who say that they wont prepare because they figure they will die if a comet hits us or some such rot.....if you prepare and DO get slammed by a major event and everyone gets squished,no problem...you arent out anything....but if whatever hits somewhere else,and you have stuff,you will do alright....I get my gear together...We(every family member) have a 3 day kit,a major field kit that we attach the 3 day kit to if we need to,and a houseful of stuff that I dont plan to carry and dont want to...but if we HAVE to run,we can....so if we get squished,you can post"I told you so"...

Extreme solar flare next fall/winter will degrid us,severe storms,power down for months,food riots,fresh water shortage,....this is what to prepare for now

Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
How about more fun:

A. reversal of earth's magnetic poles.
Nobody thinks much about the effects from that, although it has happened numerous times in earths geologic history---and without, apparently, disturbing the Van Allen belts and exposing the earth to cosmic radiation... But I bet it would mess with electrical utilities, computers, and all radio communication or indeed electrical fields of any type, from grandpa's pacemaker in his heart to every cellphone and aircraft beacon. Hmm.

A magnetic pole shift takes thousands upon thousands of years, in some cases millions to completely shift. It's not something that happens overnight, it takes a very long time. So even if we were in one, it's possible we wouldn't even notice.

Something that is very interesting though is that recently we've measured that our magnetosphere is shrinking. The reason is unknown, but the more it shrinks the more vulnerable we are to the effects of a solar storm. So a storm that might produce only moderate effects right now could produce more severe effects down the road. We'd also be exposed to more radiation.