“Don’t forget to also have a tinfoil hat handy.”
You go ahead and do that and see how far it gets you. An emergency can happen anywhere, anytime. Last winter I was snowed in for 6 weeks....I was warm, happy, and well fed.
Good for you!
When I was a kid we were snowed in for 6 weeks, my mother was so prepared I don’t remember us doing without anything. There were messages on the radio to make signs with rocks if you needed food or medical attention or supplies. We didn’t need a thing, the only issue we had was our water line froze and we had to melt snow for water.
We lived north of Flagstaff, AZ and got over 80 inches of snow in 8 days! The total snowfall the winter of 1967 was like 150 inches. The government had an airlift going to the Navajos and Hopis that lived near us and they were dropping pallets of food and supplies from helicopters on the reservations. The ranch we were on used helicopters to drop hay to the cattle- it was amazing.
My mother was truly amazing- she grew up during the depression and she was always prepared for anything. It sure paid off that winter. We were snowed in nearly all of December and part of January but she had already bought all the presents so even Christmas was still awesome.
Went through Hurricane Charlie and was without power and water for 2 weeks.
We had filled the tubs with water prior to the hurricane and that helped a lot. Also had fuel for the generator and oil. That allowed us to keep meat cool. But a lot of neighbors had a huge barbecue on the 3rd day as the meat started getting bad cause we all only had 3 generators among 5 families that stayed on our block.
Got real dark at night but a dog and weapons made it "safe".
I guess the hardest stuff to think about storing is all the food stuffs and the 6 month salary. But it makes a lot of sense to be prepared.
I agree w/you, AuntB. When I was in grad school, the other students would laugh at my 72 hour preparedness plan. 'We're in the city, what's going to happen?' Well, what can happen is that you get sick and can't go out to get food (and none of your broke grad school friends can buy any for you). Or that the power goes off. Or that the weather makes it difficult for you to get out.
Now that winter has begun here in corn country, we've just stocked up for at least a month, longer if I don't make 'meals' and we just eat what's here w/o getting fancy about it. This doesn't count the water and food stored in the basement. It can snow, it can ice, but we'll have food and fireplace logs. The one thing I don't have is a generator, but I'm working on that.