Are you ready for the natural disaster that will someday come our way? Particularly for the hurricane that could render Brooklyn a flooded hell? Most of us aren’t. Here’s a post from a Park Slope resident on Awearness that got us to thinking about the unpleasant again:

I’ll come right out and say it: If any kind of disaster strikes my Brooklyn neighborhood — whether natural or man-made — both my girlfriend and I are screwed. I don’t think of myself as a vulnerable person, but truthfully, I’m so unprepared for a calamity that I might as well be an unclothed baby in the middle of a Los Angeles Expressway at rush hour. And I just found this out, by taking a very short click-through exam: What’s Your RQ (readiness quotient). As of this morning, I was still blissfully unaware of how unprepared I really am. I scored 1 out of 10 — compared to 4.7 out of 10 among my Park Slope neighbors, meaning no one on my block should be asking me for help or advice in the event of an emergency.

Here’s the link to the test. We took it and (!!!!) beat the writer by scoring a 2 out of 10, compared to 4.4 out of 10 for our zip code. (Well, it’s a small sample so far and we brought the score down by taking the test.) Always fun stuff, especially with the really interesting part of hurricane season bearing down on us.