#58496 - 01/18/06 11:18 PM
Re: Home Prepardness
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The area of destruction for a tornado ought to be narrow enough that if you SURVIVE, you'll be able to walk out of it to unaffected civilization or otherwise get help in short order. Seems to me that a near-miss is the thing to be more worried about - something that doesn't destroy your house, but does take out the utilities and/or your access route. Much the same problems you could have with a severe thunderstorm, really. If those are your main worries, I'd expect a week of food and supplies to be more than ample, as services are likely to be restored fairly quickly. It's not the same sort of lingering and wide-spread problem that you might get from a hurricane, flood, or earthquake (or even a blizzard).
Anyone disagree?
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#58497 - 01/18/06 11:50 PM
Re: Home Prepardness
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How many bottles of water do you use per person for a one day supply? I haven't crunched the numbers of how many bottles per person per day (and those better at mental math will figure this out quickly) but I think the cases are 24 bottles of half liter bottles. The total for the case is just over three gallons, so it is a conservative one gallon per person, per day for three days. When stocking up, I began slowly and quite randomly. I'd buy a couple of extra cans of something on our list at a time. Then I started getting more systematic about it. Recently our situation has allowed more food purchases at once, so I can speed up the process a bit. Any good ideas I have are inspired by the wisdom and experience of other ETS forum members <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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#58498 - 01/19/06 12:18 AM
Re: Home Prepardness
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Paranoid?
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The walkway is about one chubby person wide... How many Cubits does that translate to? Just kiddin'. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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#58499 - 01/19/06 01:53 AM
Re: Home Prepardness
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Having read through the other posts, I'll just say, I agree with and practice the "buy what you eat, and rotate it on the shelf" approach... and the marker/purchase date system works real well. Shop the sales at your local grocery store(s), buy a little more than you need each week, and before you know it, you'll have built up the reserve you want (week, month, 3 months...). I did this prior to 12/31/99, and even though the world didn't come to an end, when the factory I was working at shut down, I was VERY glad to have six months worth of chow on hand, it wasn't what I had planned for, but it turned out to be the right thing at the right time anyway <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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#103879 - 08/29/07 01:27 AM
Re: Home Prepardness
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I keep 6 months worth of canned goods and foil packed foods for my wife and I, one month's worth of MRE's , water isn't a problem as I am on a well and have a generator, I do however have 3 weeks worth of bottled water as a backup. everything is kept in the basement in my new 10X12 fallout/tornado room.
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