Posted on Apr 16, 2021
What preparations have you made to ensure that your home and family are safe during hurricane, flood, blizzard, fire, or other natural event?
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Not a damn thing. If it happens, I get out with the family and animals. I carry my wallet and phone on me, which is enough to drive however far I need to drive, get into a hotel and start the insurance process. The rest can burn/freeze/flood/whatever. It's just STUFF.
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SSG Paul Headlee
Exactly. A person could easily screw around too long trying to save junk and lose everything (life).
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Ready.gov is a great start.
People should use an "all-hazards" approach, instead of just planning for the annual bath in New Orleans, or weekly twister in Kansas. Food, water, light, power, warmth, a radio with NWS capabilities (they use different freqs from normal AM/FM), not turning off the local cell phone alerts, a plan for evac the area, a plan to escape the home, knowledge of the top 3 hazards in the area, put a 120v inverter in a car to charge electronics.
Biggest thing is people MUST take things into their own hands, do NOT expect the government to come do everything. Expect the first 72 hours of a major disaster to be completely on your own. When the govt recommends evacuate (because they can't force you, just strongly recommend) DO IT.
You don't need to go full doomsday prepper for this, but having the basics can save you a lot of stress and allow the govt to better target their assistance to those who truly need it.
People should use an "all-hazards" approach, instead of just planning for the annual bath in New Orleans, or weekly twister in Kansas. Food, water, light, power, warmth, a radio with NWS capabilities (they use different freqs from normal AM/FM), not turning off the local cell phone alerts, a plan for evac the area, a plan to escape the home, knowledge of the top 3 hazards in the area, put a 120v inverter in a car to charge electronics.
Biggest thing is people MUST take things into their own hands, do NOT expect the government to come do everything. Expect the first 72 hours of a major disaster to be completely on your own. When the govt recommends evacuate (because they can't force you, just strongly recommend) DO IT.
You don't need to go full doomsday prepper for this, but having the basics can save you a lot of stress and allow the govt to better target their assistance to those who truly need it.
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In my locale, the big natural threats for tornados, floods, and snow/ice storms. I'm not on a flood plain, although the little stream in front of the house can get high enough to keep me from using the driveway, so that isn't an issue. I am on the North side of a ridge, which is about as safe as it gets for tornados, and the house has a basement. Still, if you take a direct hit, you are in a world of hurt. I've had to deal with the Ice Storms here on several occasions, so now I have two heat sources that don't require any electricity and I have a portable generator with a 50 amp outside plug leading to a transfer switch, so the freeze and fridge and certain rooms of the house maintain power.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
My first winter at this house, we were without power for 17 days straight. Not another serious event for a decade, but went about a week with no power. I had an older generator that wasn't hardwired to the house circuits, but it crapped out about day 5. Still used kerosene heaters as backup then, which worked OK, but are a bit smelly and a pain to deal with daily. After that, I installed two ventless propane heaters, an infrared one in the basement and a blue flame on the first floor. I upgraded the generator to a larger model and had a manual transfer switch installed. My next upgrade on that side will be to a propane generator with an automatic transfer switch. I am on City Water (or County Water in my case) and we removed the cistern when we hooked up. I am now thinking about putting a 2000 gal tank back in to catch rainwater and as a backup if things go South like they did in Texas
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