Are you ready?

[SeaCat]

Okay everybody here lives in a place where Momma Nature can get a bit frisky from time to time. It can be tornadoes or Hurricanes or Earthquakes. So what do you have just in case?

I thought about this when I saw Big Wicked Bill forming up out in the Atlantic. (Can anyone tell me where I got that name?) I started going through my supplies and was honestly surprised at what I had. I think I'm ready as long as my place survives.

So what do you have to help you survive?

Cat

 

[TE999]

Being a veteran of a few 'canes, I've worked out what I think would be essential for survival assuming the house doesn't blow away. Among the items would be canned foods, bottled water, canned/bottled cooking fuels, a portable grill, camping lanterns, flashlights, batteries galore in all sizes, first aid kits, battery operated cell phone recharger, battery operated and crank radios and tv's, tarpaulins, ropes, various tools, extra gasoline, coveralls and ponchos.

Let the winds blow.

 

[3113]

So what do you have to help you survive?

A big, strong, motivated husband

 

[iluvyou3638]

i live in california. i don't have anything at all.

 

[Edward Teach]

I only have a supply of flashlights, batteries, and oil lamps. I really should get a generator and lay in a supply of water and food. Had to go without heat and electricity for two days in the middle of winter a few years ago and it won't no fun. We get trees down from thunder storms, tornados, hurricane remnants, and ice storms here.

 

[Handley_Page]

So what do you have to help you survive?

Cat

Living in England helps.

PS. Do not forget the wind-up phone charger & radio.

 

[vrosej10]

Nothing but I probably should have. We just went through a one in a hundred flood (2ft of rain in one hour) so it should be a while before she hassles us again. That being said the Australian Government is ramping up it's fire defence strategies because they believe global warming has changed all the rules climatically, so who knows, it might rain 3ft tomorrow.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

I'm as ready as you can be, I guess. I've got the necessities, including water, non-perishables, flashlights, batteries, candles, kerosene lamp, kerosene.

 

[Weird Harold]

I only have a supply of flashlights, batteries, and oil lamps.

I've mostly gone high-tech with wind up flashlights, lanterns, and radios. There is the minor disadvantage that you can cook over an oil lamp but you can't cook over a wind-up LED lantern, but I don't haveto worry about the batteries being dead before I get around to opening the package and I don't have to worry about the lamp-oil evaporating and forming an unburnable sludge in the bottom of the lamp.

The wind-up flashlight I keep in the car is also an FM radio and has adapter cables to charge most common cellphone brands.

Of course, living in the high desert, killer storms are rare and the last serious earthquake here was something like 250 years ago. Having emergency supplies that don't expire before they're needed is important.

 

[penandpaper]

I just sent my parents a crank radio. (They live on the St. John's 20 miles inland.) They have everything else they need. If things get too bad, they always go stay in a hotel near Disney. It's a good thought, them vacationing while the world around them is drowning.

Hope everone has a safe season.

 

[jomar]

I only have a supply of flashlights, batteries, and oil lamps. I really should get a generator and lay in a supply of water and food. Had to go without heat and electricity for two days in the middle of winter a few years ago and it won't no fun. We get trees down from thunder storms, tornados, hurricane remnants, and ice storms here.

Kinda similar. Long as the likker holds out I'm good.

 

[SeaCat]

Hmmmmm,

Just checked the lists against what I have. I'm kind of surprised at what all I have in the back room and storage shed.

4 cases (24 meals each case) M.R.E.'s
4 cases wine
4 cases Beer
2 cases Tequila
10 one pound bags Dried Beans (Vacuum Packed)
5 one pound bags Rice (Vacuum Packed)
4 two pound slabs Dry Cured Bacon (Vacuum Packed)
10 one pound rings Anduillie (Vacuum Packed)
10 one pound packages Jerky (Vacuum Packed)
10 one pound packages Pemmican (Vacuum Packed)
15 tins Spam
10 packages dried soups
10 two pound packages Kibble (Vacuum Packed)
6 six gallon Gas Cans, 3 rwo gallon gas cans and one hand pump
Fuel Stabilizer
4 quarts Engine Oil
10 five gallon water Blivets
3 bottles Halazone Tablets
1 hand held water filter
1 gallon White Gas
2 gallons Lamp Oil
1 generator (2200 watts)
6 twenty pound Propane Tanks
1 camp stove
100 rounds each .22 Long Rifle, 30-06 Rifle and 9mm handgun ammo
1 Chainsaw
1 Bow Saw
Hand tools
1 gallon Cooking Oil
10 Tarps
1 Tent
4 six foot by eight foot sheets Sheet Metal
Hand Riveter
Air Pump
Radio
Batteries
Power Inverters
1 oversized First Aide Kit. (Includes some things I'm not supposed to have.)
5 boxes Cigars (Vacuum Packed)
Spare clothing including boots and underwear for both myself and the wife.
Flashlights

Along with all of this we have the sundries that are much needed.

All important papers are wrapped in plastic and stored in the safe along with money.

We have our Cell Phones.

Most of these things are stored in the back room which is hardened even more than the rest of the trailer.

The essentials are stored in totes that can be moved into the car at a momments notice.

The water and Gas Cans will be filled when I decide there will be danger from a storm. (I'm usually about two days ahead of the local weather guessers.)

Cat