Would you and your family be prepared?


We have many of the essentials scattered around and about the house. However, nothing is stored away specifically for an event, such as this.

I wonder if I would be able to get in touch with my other family members? . . . Would water and power be available? . . . Medical care? . . .Food?

Hopefully, the 'Big One' doesn't hit anytime too soon. It's has me thinking though.

I am sure I have enough essentials but I don't have them stored in one area.

I'm not sure about having the essentials prepared, but I do have everything in the storage loft above my garage secured so that a quake would not cause it to fall violently on my car.

in case the plumbing goes out, boris' backseat will be my port-o-potty

We'd have plenty of water because we would be in the water...

Ohh that's brutal, I call shotgun then!

BTW, if the one hits, I have plenty of camping gear to cover a few. (propane stove, lantern etc...even a tent if needed!) as long as the complex building I live in doesn't fall on me though!

once the big one hits i will walk down to 711 and get couple 24 packs of beer and some chips and watch tv in my car hahhahhaa


edit: come to think of it when i had the sedan the power went out in a big storm and i ended up playing play station in my car in the garage. and my parents were watching tv hahahha

Hi Andy,

My family and I are well prepared... I update my earthquake kit every 6 months, same time I check my batteries for my smoke detectors. I rotate the bottled waters and canned goods. I was in Pasadena when the 1994 Northridge earthquake hit and I was also in the Whittier earthquake and other quakes I'd forgotten the names. My family and I have and "ICE" (In Case of Emergency) before each of our names on our cell phones so emergency healthcare givers would know who to contact for us... and my family and I have a "phone tree" and a single contact person outside California to call to check in.

Very nice, G-girl. You folks are well prepared. I should probably take a few minutes and think through a plan for ourselves, as well. When the Big One hits, I have to believe that it will be quite chaotic, to say the least.

You have given some very helpful ideas . . . Thanks!

^^^ WOW. You are prepared.

NERD

had to say it.

i'll have to get on this... at least a small store of goods would be good to have just in case.

LOL . . . Yes, Giri . . . Any measure of preparedness is better than none.

I was thinking about how prepared I would be after the recent global events. I had better get my a$$ in gear.

HAHAHAHA!!! guys, I'm so paranoid! I was scared half to death at the Northridge earthquake. My parent's house jumped 6 inches off the foundation and there was no drinking water for almost 2 weeks. That was a learning experience.

Also, when they say to prepare for at least 1 week, I have 2 weeks... just a suggestion.

P.S. have at least 2 fire extinguishers and I also have an earthquake kit in each of my cars. LOL they're small and I have a gallon of distilled water in each car and I rotate them every month.

Bit of topic here but Andy, Are you ok? Is there something going on you want to share with us? Whats with all these deep self reflecting threads popping up last couple of days?, I'm going to extend same offer to G35papa while ago to you as well, if you want to talk bout something? I am all ears, I will even supply alcohol and cigarettes.

Back on topic at hand, I'm prepared it by moving 100 miles away from SF ,

Water-
there are 4 one gallon bottle of water on my refrigerator plus 8 more somewhere in the cabins, at least that much more in the garage, with 48 bottles of half litter water, two 5 gallon jugs that I swipe from work before I left, so I am pretty much set on the waters, if it ever gets really really bad? I also have small bottle of bleach to sterilize the contaminated water(not sure how well it work tho).

Food-
I carry plenty of extra food around, on ME , If that wasnt enough? I also have 6 cans of each tuna, corn beef hash, sardin, Taiwanses meat sauce(dont ask ) with couple boxes of salten crackers, couple bags of each miniature Snicker bar, kit cat, M&Ms, Potato chips, big jug of honey, penut butter and bottle of multivitamins.

Supplies-
2 6v flashlights, few 99cents D cell flashlights, with plenty of batteries for them, bag of candles that floats on water and few regular kinds, 2 first-aid pouchs out of G35 before I got rid of them , some camping type cookery, various means of self defense.

The most significant and probably most challenging thing in a disaster is contacting your love ones and making sure they are fine, I would've be worry to no ends if I can not talk to my sister and making sure that my niece and nephew are ok, that would really really suck.

^^^^ In certain instances . . . Paranoid is a good thing. Being caught unprepared is not an option in this case.