I also appreciate the humor in this thread. As far as I'm concerned, even after terrible events we will need humor to get us through...it'll be gallows humor, but a small smile or an outright laugh will help to temper the horror.

BTW ladies, a lesson learned from our daughter who was in the Air Force. Seems almost everyone in her Basic training class (female) lost their periods for the duration of the course, and a lot of them still hadn't gotten them again 3 or 4 months later. Seems nature sometimes helps in a period of high stress and takes away one of our stressors. So you won't probably need as many tampons as you might think (although they're probably still a good idea for other uses...think staunching bullet wounds).

Old bike tire innertubes cut into pieces makes a great firestarter, although smokey. Burns for a minute or two, and I carry in my Prius' trunk a baggie with Vaseline smeared cotton makeup removal pads. They make another good firestarter.