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#278243 - 12/27/15 11:45 PM Re: Of lights, power and communications. [Re: Bingley]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2946
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
Originally Posted By: Bingley
I live alone, like Jeanette.

Believe me I would not be living in a small town or anywhere in Florida, alone. I live with Mom.

Jeanette Isabelle
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#278261 - 12/29/15 02:53 AM Re: Of lights, power and communications. [Re: Bingley]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2946
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
Originally Posted By: Bingley
Hey, Nomad and others, can you give us specific equipment recommendations? I've been prepping only for the 3-day model -- so that means some store-bought batteries would do.

Why only three days?

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday

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#278271 - 12/29/15 10:21 AM Re: Of lights, power and communications. [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
EMPnotImplyNuclear Offline
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Registered: 09/10/08
Posts: 382
Originally Posted By: Jeanette_Isabelle
Originally Posted By: Bingley
Hey, Nomad and others, can you give us specific equipment recommendations? I've been prepping only for the 3-day model -- so that means some store-bought batteries would do.

Why only three days?

Jeanette Isabelle


Because 3 days is 72 hours? smile

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#278281 - 12/29/15 03:39 PM Re: Of lights, power and communications. [Re: EMPnotImplyNuclear]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2946
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
Originally Posted By: EMPnotImplyNuclear
Because 3 days is 72 hours? smile

As a result of hurricane Katrina in August of 2005, many folks started questioning whether 72 hours is long enough. 72 hours is a place to start, but there are circumstances where it would be prudent to be prepared to be on your own for a week. If you live someplace where a large scale natural disaster is likely, and New Orleans certainly qualified, as does much of suburban California and other areas subject to hurricanes and earthquakes, you need to prepare for longer. If you live where government services are notoriously poor, and New Orleans again qualified in that regard, you need to prepare for more. If you live in a very large metropolitan area where evacuation could be a real problem and infrastructure damage more severe, someplace like Los Angeles or New York for example, you need to be prepared for more. If a disaster is more likely to arrive unannounced, such as an earthquake, compared to a hurricane where advance notice is likely, you need to be prepared for more. The larger the scale of a disaster, the less time to prepare and the more people caught up in the mess, the longer it will be before government can effectively respond. You need to determine what the circumstances would likely be for you.

Realistically speaking, three months is the longest I can prepare for.

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday

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#278282 - 12/29/15 03:42 PM Re: Of lights, power and communications. [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
Russ Offline
Geezer

Registered: 06/02/06
Posts: 5357
Loc: SOCAL
I'm with Jeanette on this one. I keep a 96 hour kit in my truck, the house has much more.

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#278304 - 12/30/15 12:52 AM Re: Of lights, power and communications. [Re: Nomad]
TeacherRO Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 2574
some batteries, crank radio/ phone chargers, and lots of lanterns...good for 3 days

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