![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
OK, I get the message already
Sep. 8th, 2005 11:47 amYesterday I took stock of our office, car & home disaster/first aid kits. To my surprise, one of the car first aid kits migrated under our bathroom sink so that was remedied fast. As if Katrina wasn't enough of a reminder to get off my butt and review, today's riveting episode of the Wiggles had Greg going through the contents of a first aid kit.
I also lived life on the edge yesterday by drinking some expired (late 04) emergency water at work. It tasted fine and I suffered no ill effects, so we'll hold on to those as extras for our office kits. I did not feel similarly brave with trying the expired emergency food bars, but in conjunction with my mom we're placing a combined disaster supplies order soon to replace and upgrade some things including emergency food for the cats.
We are reasonably well prepared to live off the grid for a while if something hit now, but we haven't really updated our supplies much since the Nisqually quake (before Kieran was born). I'm also torn on whether continuing to stash the supplies in the house or moving them to the detached garage would be better, although the latter has huge humidity & temperature fluctuations in addition to many gas powered items. The shed is so flimsy it'd be history, plus it's under a tree. Maybe a split of the food we'd actually prefer eating & water paks in the house with the dire straights stuff in the garage?
I also lived life on the edge yesterday by drinking some expired (late 04) emergency water at work. It tasted fine and I suffered no ill effects, so we'll hold on to those as extras for our office kits. I did not feel similarly brave with trying the expired emergency food bars, but in conjunction with my mom we're placing a combined disaster supplies order soon to replace and upgrade some things including emergency food for the cats.
We are reasonably well prepared to live off the grid for a while if something hit now, but we haven't really updated our supplies much since the Nisqually quake (before Kieran was born). I'm also torn on whether continuing to stash the supplies in the house or moving them to the detached garage would be better, although the latter has huge humidity & temperature fluctuations in addition to many gas powered items. The shed is so flimsy it'd be history, plus it's under a tree. Maybe a split of the food we'd actually prefer eating & water paks in the house with the dire straights stuff in the garage?
