(Thoughts on the immediate situation… If you live in this country… Please read to the end. Stay safe my friends.)
POTUS is threatening to attack every power plant and bridge in Iran, starting at 8 PM Eastern Time tomorrow night.
I’m hoping for the best. Maybe this will all blow over, maybe he’ll move the deadline again, maybe TACO, idk.
But I’m preparing for the worst.
My friends – Israelis, Palestinians, internationals – please get ready for a wild ride tomorrow night, starting at 3 AM, through 7 AM, if not the entire day.
If you do not have access to a bomb shelter, PLEASE consider spending the festival somewhere you do. I’d even say it’s worth the risk traveling to a safer location, but that’s a tough call and I honestly don’t know what I would definitely do in that situation. I’ve got a baby and no car, I know what it’s like to not be so mobile and not want to expose them to danger.
Please buy extra water and food, and keep them in your bomb shelter along with blankets, batteries, and a first aid kit. Maybe a book or something. Tehillim. Quran. Brandon Sanderson. Whatever works for you.
Don’t forget games for the kids.
Please keep your phones close (as if I even have to say it 🤦) and get ready to go as soon as you get a warning. In our home that’s shoes ~> blankets for baby ~> bathroom ~> coats. Turn off the stove.
Don’t wait for the sirens to get ready. Don’t count on there being enough time.
And if and when the sirens come, please GO, calmly and quickly, to your shelter. Close the doors behind you. And stay there until you get a notification that it’s safe to leave.
I’m hoping for: nothing, like so much of what comes of POTUS’s rants. A day of prayer and study. A potluck lunch and an afternoon nap.
I’m preparing for: a morning (day?) of missile salvos, possibly as bad as the first day of the war, with barely anything left to intercept them.
Now, don’t get it twisted:
This is not doom and gloom.
I’m not trying to scare anyone.
But after a month of daily warnings, sirens, and missiles, I know how burned out we’re getting. Getting a little loose with safety and common sense. Hell, some people I know refuse to go to a shelter at all. 🤦
So in the hopes of nudging even just one person closer towards safety than they otherwise would have been, I’m willing to take the comparatively small risk of looking like a fool and/or Cassandra, and suggest that it’s a good idea to prepare for and stay safe tomorrow night and Wednesday.
Don’t rely on miracles – but always hope for them.
And last but not least, as a reminder, last night we counted 4 in the Omer. (5 if you’re reading this ereb hag.)
שייבנה בית המקדש במהרה בימינו
ותן חלקנו בתורתך