Emergency Plan - What would you do??

[potioncat]

 "Barbara" <miamibarb at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> I think it's only a recommendation that people have a three-day 
supply
> of food and water. What is scarier (than being a law) is that the
> government doesn't make promises of getting help to us any sooner 
than
> three days. 
> 
> Honestly, I don't know how people in small apartments are able to 
keep
> a three-day hoard for the entire five or so months that is hurricane
> season. 

Potioncat:
When I lived in California, I looked over the recommendations for 
preparomg for earthquakes. They even suggested keeping your supplies 
in a rolling trash can so you could move with it.

I'm in Virginia now. Sometimes we'll have summer storms that knock 
out electricity---often for several days! In that case, it's very 
good to have water on hand. Because once the emergency is underway, 
it's hard to find water, batteries, etc. Of course, we get snowed in 
sometimes too. (doesn't take much, here.) Most people go out at the 
first weather forecast and buy bread, milk and toilet paper. (No, I 
don't know why.) I used to rush out for milk, eggs and sugar so we 
could make snow cream.

Several years ago our area was expecting to be hit by the tail end of 
a hurricane. On a friend's recommendation, I filled the tub with 
water. My family humored me. The next day the water supply failed 
completely. All our neighbors were trekking to the creek to haul 
water in buckets so they could flush the toilets. I was a hero in my 
house!

Potioncat, who thinks she'd better take inventory of her household 
emergency supplies.