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TOILET PAPER THAT'S HOW OLD?

Have you seen the email that’s going around by an Air Force lieutenant colonel who served as the commander of a hurricane shelter for 731 people in Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina’s ravages?

It’s funny, instructive, and touching. These people were stuffed into an old nuclear fallout shelter but handled the deprivations with grace and humor. There were no showers, no windows, for a while no air conditioning or ventilation, and no smoking. They improvised, improving TV reception with copper tubing, running something like 500 fans off five power outlets using 2,000 extension cords, and Rube Goldberg-ing a rudimentary shower using sandbags.

My favorite anecdote is when the water stopped running and the toilets overflowed. Again, they improvised, preparing to use plastic bags as toileting facilities. Then an enterprising major explored in the basement and found a whole bunch of Civil Defense Survival Sanitation Kits.

That’s right – toilet paper. It was from 1961. And it was still soft!

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