Also reminded me of a scary one. I was not only chaperone, but the driver of a mini-bus of students to a hospital lab in Syracuse. Driving up I-81 on a snow packed road, a car was passing us and I noticed it was beginning to lose control, swerving. I took action and slowed down. The car did a 180º and ended up in front of us as we stopped too. The kids were amazed that I was able to avoid an accident. Told them it's called defensive driving.
In my 32 year teaching career I had many experiences as a chaperone on school buses, trips to away sports and field trips. My worst fear was to miss a student on the return trip. Fortunately it never happened to me. The wildest one was taking a group of science students to the then Schlitz brewery in Baldwinsville NY. The bus driver and I took part in a clandestine sampling test by one of the lab guys. Looking back on that, we were lucky we both did not lose our jobs.
The ability to produce food has grown immensely because of applied genetics. It can only get better. The big bugaboo is the many nations in need have horribly run governments and very poor infrastructure to help in production and distribution.
I think I recall some stat that said the "carrying capacity" of planet earth was around 6 billion people. Of course most starvation and such is caused by inept governments and poor policies.
Actually central NY accent says Noo YoRk. We do pronounce the "R". An expert in American linguistics could probably put me in my old home town of Syracuse.
Back in my Army time we just used the cloth gun cleaning patches wadded up and stuck in our ears to protect us. Probably better than nothing. Things could get pretty loud.
One time when I was at college in Maine, there was a night fog and a very bright Northern Lights. It was so light out around 10 PM you could read a newspaper.