Oof. No words for the nature reserve or the research centre getting hit. I wish it were a conference of climate change deniers instead, both burned and hailed to pieces.

Also, waiting for some nebulous form of disaster is more wearing than fixing disaster, I feel your friends on the anxiety front. If only there were a way to make in-case preparation fun...maybe decorate a box in your car to put your emergency bags/supplies in, so it's pretty? Or get a really good food and put in in there, so if something dire happens, at least you have [good thing], and if it doesn't you can eat it as a celebration? (I am trying to be any help at all, and apologise if these are bad suggestions, I seem to be on a roll with offending people right now)