Thread: Seriousness are you prepared?
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Old 10-19-2010, 07:43 PM   #161
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Originally Posted by kindlekitten View Post
in my neck of the woods we are being told to expect the worst winter in 55 years. winters here can be very whacky indeed. a couple of years after I first moved out here we had a truly wild storm on christmas eve that knocked out power all over the area (we were without power for 8 or 9 days), literally made trees explode from freezing, and ended up with my entire family sleeping in one bed for warmth. the house was completely electric and had no fireplaces. the next year we bought the farm that I am on now. even though the house is still a disaster from a contractor gone bad, it is a survivable house.

when I had kids at home I always had a couple of crates that were kept in the garage with our disaster supplies. in addition to crazy storms, this is also the land of not "if" but "when" the BIG ONE (earthquake) comes, are you prepared? I have rudimentary supplies in place, nothing like when I had kids at home, but now with all of these dire warnings, I'm thinking maybe I need to take inventory and stock up again.

how about everyone else? how do you stay prepared?
We are not prepared. It's probably time we did, as there is the possibility of a bad Tropical Cyclone/storm season this year (note, we're not in the full-on TC zone though). By coincidence just yesterday I was looking at our Queensland government's Emergency website. They have a checklist for Home Prep., a checklist for an Emergency Kit, and a checklist for an Evacuation Kit. I'll find them again later (I'm about to go out) and post links to them (PDFs) for consideration and criticism, if anyone's interested.

Cheers,
Marc
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