Ratbert,
Thank's for the input and the insight. I need all the advice/opinion's I can get right now. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> You actually are quite accurate......being an exPolice Officer, all the step's you mentioned, smoke detector's, etc, were in place very shortly after we bought the home.
Now as far as the Bird Flu goes, at our ages, if we were to come down with it, what can I say..."...well, St. Peter, it was like this.....". That we are not actually worried about. I am a realist by nature, Not one of the Paranoid set that sit's in their backyards every night looking for Black Helicopter's! I try to take each day as it comes, and be prepared for the worst, and hope for the best.....like most of us.
I have learned to trust my instinct's however.....seriously trust my instinct's! My instinct's tell me there's "Wailing and Nashing of Teeth...." coming.....so I am doing the best I can by providing for my family, in the best way I know right now......by asking considerably more learned people such as yourself for suggestion's! I am a Newbie, and I admit it!
Your right about the water....I have 6, 6 gallon plastic "Jerry Can" type water container's, "Stabilized", and am planning on getting at 6 more. (Good thing I have such a neat garage!). We are getting a supply of bottled water to go in both the car and the truck also.
Being a Disabled Vet, Med's are a problem! Especially when your daily dosage of Narcotic's would floor a Pachyderm! I am going to have to go talk to the Director of the D/FW VAMC about that. Knowing the VA as intimately as I do, that's going to be a problem.
In the event of a Bug Out, we have a family friend who has 88 acres in AR nestled in a valley, between two mountains. VERY Nice! As far as a Checklist goes, D##n Good idea! We are going to have to start work on that! Thank You!
As far as Family contact goes, we are working on that one. As if to add to our problems, both the Miss's daughter's live in the FL panhandle, and Hurricane season just started....wonder if I should put up the tent and chack it?
Before anything else, Ratbert.....Thank's!

Krell