Emergency Preparedness for the Home

[Mark]

I have made accomadations for storage in my new utility room for some emergency prepardness items.

The goal is to get covered for a month of no food/water/etc's.

Later maybe expand to two or three months, but I want to start small first.

So I am looking for some idea's on thinks I need to consider.


Bottled water obviously
Bic lighters for easy fire
Long term food stuffs
Grab-n-go backs in case we have to leave
Medical kit


You know, stuff like that.

What do you think is important or must-haves?

[bodebliss]

This might be a good reason why...






A week or two worth of food in a freezer and dry goods

[Mark]

I am not looking to live through the end of the world. Likely it will be tough anyways and my survival is questionable.

But basically I want to setup for some issue like loss of power for a couple of weeks or so, loss of heat in the winter, flooding out of roads leading to grocery stores, etc.

I just hope to gain position for 1 to 3 months so I can know my family and I will eat, have water, able to make heat, and heal wounds. I am not in position to stock years worth of supplies as in the case of a full scale breakdown of the world. But I can plan for a few months of hardship in the event of temporary loss of local resources in some natural disaster or something.

[DownintheUpside]

www.ready.gov has some decent info on preparedness, I'm constantly hearing about that site on the local radio station but never looked at it until you started this thread.

I am sure the LDS has quite a bit of info too since don't they ask their members to get at least a 3 month's supply ready?

[Mark]

www.ready.gov has some decent info on preparedness, I'm constantly hearing about that site on the local radio station but never looked at it until you started this thread.

I am sure the LDS has quite a bit of info too since don't they ask their members to get at least a 3 month's supply ready?

Appreciate the link and suggestion and yes, you are right.

I am going to make a master list for the basic 7 day list, and then for the three month list. Anything after that, I dont think we will be sitting at home anytime after that.

edit to add: I have been looking at the Mountain House products for a 7-day freeze dried per person in the household, plus their #10 cans for extended foods. I understand they are the premium at long-life and taste.

You know, this reminds me of when I lived back east once. There was a once in a 100 year ice-storm, I was without power for a week. I lived in my truck in my garage in freezing weather, because I had a tank of gas and it kept me warm. All my refrigerated food went bad. I had no water, short of some soda. Almost everyone had no power and the emergency shelters were full up. I had never considered emergency preparedness before then, and honestly not afterward. But now I am not single, and maybe some age has put some ignorance to bed.