Thanks CastAway,<br><br>You are right about most of my questions leaning toward survivalism. I have a belief that I will survive just about anything that man or nature can throw at me with the exception of an atom bomb going off right over my head. My family and I survived the floods of the Mississippi in 1992, I survived a very bad Taxi ride in Mexico while on vacation in 1995. And I survived a hit and run by two drunk drivers at the same time that they left me for dead upside down in a rain-filled ditch in my old 1988 Ranger. Each of these events have left a mark on my life that will not be forgotten. I have been lucky or at least it was not my time to go. Each event I some how remained calm until the end then after it was all over with then I went kind of crazy. Thanks for the advice about looking up strictly water storage and long term storage of food on the internet. I had not really thought about looking in that manner so maybe I'll find what I am looking for there or here. It really doesn't matter where as long as I find what I am looking for.<br><br>THanks,<br>Barracuda<br><br>Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. <br>—Thomas Jefferson <br>