Disaster Preparation?
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- mg33
Wondering if any of you have any well-defined plans or preparations to deal with a disaster in your city. I don't necessarily mean on the level of that Doomsday Preppers, but just general things like access to water, food for a few days, money on hand if banks are closed, a meeting point for family of you are separated during a disaster, etc.
I feel like the older I get the more I realize if something catastrophic were ever to happen, it's going to suck to not be able to survive in the short-term when it will matter most.
- 74LEO1
Just raid the corporate supermarkets!
- GeorgesII0
The thing I use,
- you should at least have drinking water for a week
- you should keep dry food/cans for at least a week
- an old FM battery (keep fresh batteries) radio
- something you could use as weapon
- loads of toilet paper
- alcohol to drink and clean your wounds
- a meeting place for you and your familly,
I can stress that enough, in case of disaster phone lines could be occupied or just down, make sure you've planned a meeting place where every member of your family know to get there even when you can't reach them- sorry gotta bounce soon,
there are tons of good blogs out there, just be weary of those telling you to buy coins, etcGeorgesII
- sorry gotta bounce soon,
- mg330
Those are good tips. My wife and I have talked before about her dad's house well outside of Chicago being used as a meeting point. By car it's a little under 2 hours. On foot or other transportation it'd be far longer. We probably need something a little closer in to Chicago as an initial meeting point (I work in the loop downtown, she works north of here about 7 miles, our house is closer to her than me).
- no matter what you chose, make sure only you, your wife knows it, don't go around talking about your secret spot :)GeorgesII
- GeorgesII0
^
EVERYONE, IN CASE OF DISASTER,
LET'S ALL MEET UP AT MG33'S DAD'S PLACE
it's only 2 hours by car, i'll create a facebook event,
ok, now I seriously need to bounce :)
- 74LEO0
^
Ill bring the propane and beer!
- ukit20
- boardwalk empire?74LEO
- http://www.imdb.com/…ukit2
- ah beeez!!!!74LEO
- i_monk0
- good to see they have their Medical Marijuana sortedautoflavour
- is that a burning man ticket?sea_sea
- LOL.. its scarabins bug out bag
autoflavour - needs condoms and lubes... just in case.Amicus
- CygnusZero40
I dont worry about it. It's so unbelievably rare for this to happen in the US. I have a gun. Everything else will just work itself out.
- graham0
Started to put one together after all the flooding here recently. (UK)
Not zombie apocalypse survival, just not having to battle for supplies with those who leave it too late survival.
- wagshaft0
In the US sign up for a local CERT class.
http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert…Instead of preparing to shoot folks, helps put together a plan for one's self and your 'hood and provides an angle toward what to expect for different types of distasters.
- waterhouse0
I've always kept a surplus of energy bars and Evian for when the poles shift.
- Should help.waterhouse
- You'll outlive the rest of us by hours.i_monk
- and he'll be energetic too.CanHasQBN
- lolsea_sea
- hahagoldieboy
- scarabin0
i've got two alice packs full of gear and a case of MREs in my closet ready to go. never made any plans about WHERE to go, however
- 4040
I started working on my "Oh Shit Bag" a couple of months ago. Here are a couple of websites to help get some of you guys started.
http://countycomm.com/whatsnew.h…
http://www.lapolicegear.com/
- uan0
- the most patient I've ever had to be in life was waiting for a survival knife to arrive by mail as a six year old...mg33
- bought it from Boys Life magazine. 6 weeks for delivery. Six longest weeks of my life.mg33
- ^w/ the compass handle w/ cheap aluminum threads that never seems to screw back on right? yupmoldero
- melq0
This is a really good book, applicable to most people in urban/suburban areas:
http://www.amazon.com/When-All-H…Where I live, it's far more likely for me to experience a weather-related event that makes the system break down, so our preparation is primarily centered around that:
• Gas-powered generator + fuel
• Potable water (day-to-day used for beer and wine making, but anything not actively holding a ferment is always full of water)
• Lots of beer and wine (see previous)
• Freezer full of meat; pantry full of home-canned food; lots of dry goods
• Moderately-versatile first aid kit (more than a cigar box; less than something carried by an EMT)In the event of something more sinister, we're pretty well armed to the teeth.
- Who the fuck stocks beer and wine in case of an emergency?CygnusZero4
- The words are there, Cygnus. Read them all.melq
- Only thing Im reading is you're a hick.CygnusZero4
- Hick (n): a word used by dependent fools to describe those that think ahead.melq
- i was just going to recommend thissublocked
- i'm all about the wine. it will help keep you warm, alive and happy.sea_sea
- Any GoT reader knows that boiled wine is useful for cleaning any wound.Amicus
- scarabin0
- When is the last time you heard of anything in a developed country that needed something like this?CygnusZero4
- I guess this would have been handy during the Ice Age.CygnusZero4
- *anything=anyoneCygnusZero4
- every time there's a natural disaster supermarkets run out of food. remember people scavenging during katrina?scarabin
- well, the black folks were looting, but the white folks were scavengingscarabin