Originally Posted By: philip


My big deal is medicine. We're both on life-long pills, and if there's no long term power, we will have trouble getting prescriptions filled. I think I'll ask the pharmacy what their power plans are if there's an earthquake or long term power outage.


There's been some pretty good threads on developing an emergency stash of prescription meds. As per Katrina, this is a critical area. The solution is quite easy. Here's a good thread about this
and this
I need to develop a better plan for our pharmacy. The clinic doesn't even have a backup generator. The sad fact is most of the docs will be called into the hospitals for triage work where they have backup power...leaving me powerless. I have a SmartUPS, but that lasts 20 min. I've read about hooking up a UPS to a deep-cycle battery for hours of power...I will be looking into that at home as well. Power is the biggie with pharmacy. My little fridge would have to have a backup power source as well.
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