Eli Lopez
student
“If I’m out, I’ll go home to my family. My family’s more important. I don’t really think about it until I see it on the news.”
Nancy Gruenberger
retired
“How prepared can you be in this area? There’s no underground shelter or places of safety for a common person. My faith will get me through.”
Jay Rose
sales associate
“Stock a lot of food and try and build a shelter.”
Amy Stanzione
stay-at-home mom
“We have a disaster kit. We’re not that full-blown into preparedness, but we can bug out if we need to.”
This article appears in Sep 3-10, 2015.