Emergency Preparedness?

[InTheBum]

Has anyone stockpiled supplies ...ie. food, water, medical, ...etc, in the case of a serious emergency, whatever that may be?

If so, what do you have and where do you keep it?

 

[jnewton]

I've posted a few times on why it's smart to have a year's worth of food available in your home.

Although I completely agree, I think it's best to think of such supplies as insurance against loss or severe decrease in income.

If we are talking about an end-of-civilization scenario, once the neighbors find out you have food, you had better have a stockpile of heavy weapons and ammo, at least enough to last until they all starve or move on.

 

[princeofdarkness]

Valuable info Alinburnaby, thank you for sharing that. Personally, I have three emergency backpacks. Each one is filled with enough essentials to last me 5 days in the event of some disaster. One backpack is kept in the hallway closet and the other two are in the trunks of the two cars I drive most often.

Peace.

 

[vancity_cowboy]

It does mean you have to have a couple of freezers...

most freezers run on electricity. i don't know how many hours per day they have to run to keep the whole freezzer-load frozen, but I don't think the average person will have a large amount of generator fuel on hand to keep it running that often... just sayin'

 

[oldbutgood]

Water and food in the basement. But why stress? There are so many scenarios you cannot cover them all - emergency at work, caught in the car, caught at friends who aren't prepared, at home but you have to evacuate, etc.

 

[not2old]

In a recent update by the US Centers for Disease Control, they are advising people to be prepared for a number of emergencies such as a Zombie Apocalypse.

Here is their blog that will help you with Emergency preparedness to allow you to be properly prepared for a possible Zombie Apocalypse.

There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.

http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp