[Kirkwood]

Fresh and stored dried food will go bad when exposed to surge water. Stored water can be tainted the same way. Canned food can be buried under rubble or washed away. I had all of this happen to me during Katrina, and I followed the best advice at the time for prepping. Learned that a lot of the advice on prepping is just nonsense written by someone who knows nothing about a disaster.

[Reno89519]

Yep, best plans might not work. Can’t get home or stay home defeats all your efforts anyway. Last year my wife and kids had to evacuate for a day because of fire on hillside (I was out of town). Found themselves briefly at a high school. Preparation was useless in that situation.

[momincombatboots]

So can you share how to store my dried food.. I am surrounded by a lake on threes sides less than a mile away. We have a lot of expensive dried food. Thanks.. they moved irmas temnant to the west, thankfully cuz it was headed right for Knoxville last week.

[robroys woman]

Fresh and stored dried food will go bad when exposed to surge water.

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Something my father drilled into me since I was a kid in the 1960’s involved where to build or buy a home. He was big on living on high ground. For anywhere I’ve lived my entire life to be inundated by a “storm surge”, it would be a flood, at least at the local level, of biblical proportions. Now, my friends that live in the valleys may not fare quite as well.

[PTBAA]

Perhaps you can share what you learned with us at an appropriate time.

[CottonBall]

What would you store, and how, now that you’ve been through it?

Prepping advice is a one-size fits all thing. Most of it will work for me, since the chances of flooding here is minimal. I suppose we all need to adapt that advice to where we live, what might happen, neighbors, abilities. The generic advice shouldn’t sound like it applies to all situations either!

[Pollster1]

a lot of the advice on prepping is just nonsense written by someone who knows nothing about a disaster

A lot of the advice on prepping is written by people who know something about disasters, but what they know is about the wrong disasters for what happened. I have, unfortunately, been in a broad variety of disasters, and earthquakes are very different from floods, which are very different from hurricanes or civil unrest.

[T-Bone Texan]

You know what’s fun?

Opening cans where the label has washed off. It’s a surprise every time.

It’s can roulette. The only rule is you open it, you eat it.

My buddy had canned green beans for dinner last night. He lost the game.

[SVTCobra03]

Proper prepping can depend on your location. In a hurricane zone you need to bug out or put your preps above the surge level.