Describe your ultimate escape plan (and tell us what you’re escaping from).

Frankly I’ve never really had to escape from anything in my life. I’ve been thinking about that recently. That I kind of grew up in a very protected place. Upstate New York doesn’t really suffer from any real substantive disasters as the rest of the country does. We didn’t really have any earthquakes (very small tremors every 20 years doesn’t count, it just upsets pets and that’s it), no Tornadoes as the surrounding drumlins, hills, and in a roundabout way the foothills to the Adirondack Mountain Chain just tear thunderstorms apart so they can’t really gather up enough oomph to spawn twisters. Hurricanes are also out of the question because if a Hurricane got that far north, it’d be just a really heavy wet rainstorm at that point. The only real risk is snowfall. Come on! When it comes to surviving a natural disaster, snow is not really on the map. Get to shoveling! Not really that scary. So escape was never really in my head anyways, not growing up and not really now. Now, however things are different. A gaggle of years ago I moved to Michigan and I no longer have one of the sentinels of security protecting me. There aren’t any handy mountain chains to tear up passing thunderstorms and so, I happen to live around the area that could be regarded as the northern tip of Tornado Alley. So now I have to consider escaping where I work because of a Tornado, but I don’t really think about it because there really isn’t ever any chance to actually escape. If I’m at work, it’s into the basement we all go, to die under a mess of torn-apart brickwork. So, no, no real escape plan.