[Stefan Stackhouse]

What I don't understand is why there was also no mention of using WD40 to decontaminate. I thought that Duct Tape and WD40 fixed EVERYTHING!

;-)

[NeonKnight]

I own a hardware store...I haven't sold any duct tape today, but I have sold some plastic.

Remember to buy the expensive 6 mil plastic...in fact, I think you should cover your whole house with it, just to be safe.

I also have the expensive, 200 MPH Nascar duct tape. I wouldn't bet my life on the cheap stuff.

You will also be needing a box of nails, and some dust masks.

[ChemistCat]

Yep. Just got a 5 pack of duct tape from Sam's. One for each car, a couple for home. It's not like we don't use it ANYWAY. Sam's was prepared. HUGE stack ready to move.

Being LDS we have our two year's food storage (not that we'll be happy eating some of it--that hard red wheat does NOT agree with me) and after listening to Glenn Beck this morning I went out and spent $400 at Sam's replenishing the 72 hour kits. (Well, okay, I bought myself a new Tempsoma pillow and a couple of other goodies too.) We have one more kid than we had when last I really paid attention to this matter. She doesn't even have her own SLEEPING BAG! And our tent is too small. But after tonight, each vehicle will have 72 hours worth of supplies for each family, including water. GAH! The gourmet water market has REALLY messed things up. I paid more for liter bottles of water than I think I would have paid for soda. But so be it.

72 hour kits, some cash on hand, keep your tank 3/4 or more full of gas, some clorox, pick up a few 5 gallon bottles of water and some charcoal, and some batteries. Make a plan for where your family can meet if you are away from home but can't GET home for some reason. (We have had this problem already once when a tornado cut us off from one another. The cops weren't letting ANYONE through the damaged area.)

THEN when you've done all this, FORGET ABOUT IT, and don't stress, because the odds of being one of the people who NEED these precautions are really pretty low!

But I am sure wishing more people would take this stuff seriously, especially my NEIGHBORS!!! because even without terrorism, we all are eventually going to run up against some crisis or other, and if everyone is prepared there can be a lot more kindness and charity and a lot less fear, panic, and violent redistribution of needful commodities! I saw people fight over drinking water in a Piggly Wiggly parking lot after Hurricane Hugo hit South Carolina. But after the May '99 tornado in central Oklahoma, donations to displaced families overwhelmed those who needed them. Which paradigm do you think would follow a major terrorist attack?

[TBall]

I got a lot of plastic shopping bags and some rubber cement. Do you think I can make do?

[Hatteras]

Richard Gere has quite a stock on hand. He uses it to wrap his hamsters so they don't explode!

[KarlInOhio]

How little has changed in the last 50-60 years.

What to Do in a Gas Attack - 1942

What You Should Know About Biological Warfare 1952

[Richard Kimball]

If you're in Texas, you ALWAYS have a ready supply of duct tape and WD-40. If it moves and it's not supposed to, use duct tape. If it doesn't move and it's supposed to, use WD-40.

[Marysecretary]

I'm not overly concerned but I do have lots of Y2K stuff, batteries, toilet paper, tomato soup (smile), and now we have a wood burning stove (2 actually) and lots of trees surrounding our place, and a creek below the house so we're better than we would have been in the apartment.

I was watching a show yesterday with a woman named Laura somebody who wrote a book on nutrition (How to feel really good all the time, I think was the title) and they were discussing the smallpox problem. She said the best defense is a good immune system. I won't have a shot because I'm diabetic and I don't think it's good for anyone with an autoimmune system, so I'm working on getting my immune system built up. So, eat your fruits, veggies, whole grains, nuts, (unsalted and raw, of course) seeds and you won't get sick. Also, you need to get some kind of chelation therapy to get rid of all the aluminum and heavy metal toxicity in your system. She mentioned the overuse of aluminum foil and how it leaches into your food and causes toxicity (as well as mercury fillings, which I'm having replaced little by little). She said 70% of all cancer is caused by chemicals in the body. So, eat well, my children, and get chelated! Ah, elated about chelated.

[FourPeas]

Run-on duct tape is what you get when my four year old gets his hands on a new roll.

[Redcloak]

I have a bunch of dry wall screws and some blue tarps. Will that do?

[July 4th]

A crate of ammunition and something to shoot it is much more useful, in my opinion. Then you never have to worry about having enough duct tape -- if someone else has some, just help yourself.

[myprecious]

I just got in from WalMart here in East Texas. There was a full endcap on the main aisle devoted to duct tape and one to plastic sheeting! I got mine....

Also wanted to pass on the suggestion to stock up on DISPOSIBLE CONTACT LENSES if needed. I ordered mine today and hope they come in before it gets weird.

Prayers to all.

[Ima Lurker]

Not me. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do with all the bread and milk I bought during our latest snow threat.

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Get this...

Gas went from 1.55 to 1.79 today here in Mn.

Well, at the 1 station that was still 1.55, the lines were long, some were coming from the opposite way, trying to cut in front, horns were blowing, 2 people were arguing as I left......

Geez, is this crap happenning elsewhere...???????

[Trailerpark Badass]

When I used to keep my duct tape and heavy plastic sheeting in the car, the cops looked at me funny.

When I brought it in the house, my wife looked at me funny.

Does Tom Ridge really know what he's doing?

[StriperSniper]

Pssst!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Dunno. I bought all of mine in 9/01. Did have some of the cheap plastic jugs of bottled water spring a leak(inside closet with steady temps.).

[Lady Jag]

Get yours from Duct Tape Guys

[harpo11]

The least Uncle Sam could do is make sure we all have a roll of duct tape with every pot of soup.

[sistergoldenhair]

Later read.