Science question about underground survival.

[Tonks]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> carol responds:
> I'll tell you one thing, though. The people who stock up on toilet
> paper as well as staple foods are being sensible. I'd stock up on
> Kleenex (sorry, tissues), too, and anything else you might need, for 
example, a first-aid kit, several flashlights, a solar power generator 
if feasible (probably not in an apartment), some sort of battery 
operated radio (maybe a two-way radio), and a stock of books, puzzles, 
games and other forms of entertainment because, believe me, if you're 
going to stay in an underground shelter for very long, you're going to 
be bored! I'd bring writing tablets or notebooks and a journal, but 
that's just me.

Tonks:
I plan to build a house, but my apartment does have a basement, but I 
would not want to go down there, it is full of bats. Long story. 

And I have a list with TP being the first item. Kleenex the second. 
Water third. I always keep 3 months of T.P. and Kleenex on hand anyway. 
As you get older it is too hard to get out to the stores just before a 
blizzard comes and every fool in 10 countries is trying to get to the 
stores. Also you never know when you might be ill and can't get out. So 
I have a lot of stuff year around, best especally in the winter.

I remember a few years ago when the whole electrical grid went out for 
the East and part of the Midwest. Everyone's first thought was a 
terrorist attack. I had been prepared with water, and supplies, radio, 
flashlites, batteries, etc. But my friend was not. So here I am doing 
the very thing that I carefully had prepared not to do.. and that was 
going to the store.. the only one that had its own generator and 
getting supplies for her. Every year at Christmas I buy her another 
flashlight. She must have 20 of them by now, but can she ever find 
one!! When we go to a movie she can not see and tries to grab at me.. 
and I say.. where is your FLASHLITE?? Now she has one in her purse, but 
she still grabs at me. You never know when you might need a flashlite. 
I was in a big store once during a storm and all the lights went out. 
Not good. And their backup lights came on and went out twice. Be 
prepared.. a good auror is always prepared!!

Tonks_op