I guess the best that anyone can do is prepare the best they can. Keep your eyes and ears open, question everything, pay no attention to politicians,media, or authority, and live from the heart.

If TPTB say, "Don't panic and stay where you are!"...that may be the time get straight with God and RUN LIKE THE BLAZES!

I think you're right in that I believe most will just shrug off any warnings until it's too late, and unfortunately I would probably include myself in that group. I would love to say that all my time and effort spent preparing would be put to good use if the time ever came, but I don't think anyone can ever fully prepare for such a situation that no one on earth at this time has ever witnessed before. We can think we know how we'd handle things, but we won't really know until it happens, and by then it'll probably be too late to do us any good.

Not to be the Debbie Downer of the thread thus far But I think if it were to reach that point, the only thing would be to accept our circumstances and do what we're able to, which unfortunately might not be much.