Sep 12, 2026 · 36 min · 13 segments
What happens when you leave your home on a Tuesday night thinking you'll be back by morning — and wake up to find out it's gone? In this episode of Disaster Diaries, Andy and Evan sit down with…
Evan FarmerHost
Andy KrugerHost
What I got from her, one of the main things was hope for the best, but maybe plan for the worst.
And it's not necessarily that she planned for the worst, but I think that could be something that would be useful to folks who have not yet gone through a disaster or who maybe have and then are still living in an area that's prone to them.
is you do want to keep that hope of, you know, you want to keep that bubble psychologically.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't also take some precaution to plan for if things do go south, let's mitigate that downside, right? Let's hedge against that a little bit.
So once you've done everything you can and everything's out of your hands, use that denial to get through the next challenge, you know? And the way they come, she said, don't compartmentalize and feel your feelings.
But to some degree, she compartmentalized until she had a safe time and place and space to feel those feelings, which I just thought was spectacular.
But Clearly, they were not living in denial beforehand because, again, they were one of our guests that had the right insurance, that had done everything right, that left when the inkling of should we go hit them.
And that's, what's made this whole process so much less traumatic than it could have been.
What I got from her, one of the main things was hope for the best, but maybe plan for the worst.
And it's not necessarily that she planned for the worst, but I think that could be something that would be useful to folks who have not yet gone through a disaster or who maybe have and then are still living in an area that's prone to them.
is you do want to keep that hope of, you know, you want to keep that bubble psychologically.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't also take some precaution to plan for if things do go south, let's mitigate that downside, right? Let's hedge against that a little bit.
So once you've done everything you can and everything's out of your hands, use that denial to get through the next challenge, you know? And the way they come, she said, don't compartmentalize and feel your feelings.
But to some degree, she compartmentalized until she had a safe time and place and space to feel those feelings, which I just thought was spectacular.
But Clearly, they were not living in denial beforehand because, again, they were one of our guests that had the right insurance, that had done everything right, that left when the inkling of should we go hit them.
And that's, what's made this whole process so much less traumatic than it could have been.
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