I laughed at all those people stock piling supplies for Y2K. It was hillarious.
People really are easily led around by media hysteria.
Actually ihg, you SHOULD have two months supply of food and water in your home....
my sister lived in Miami and took a direct hit from Andrew....the entire community was destroyed, shoot the entire county was destroyed down to homestead AFB....
she did not have electricity for 7 weeks....she did not want to leave her house because she did not want to get looted so she stayed there, alone with her cats and 3 guns with ammo that she owned.....her house was the only one on the street that just lost a part of her roof over an upstairs spare bedroom, the guy next door lost some windows and a good portion of his roof but he was in contruction and had all the supplies to fix it in his garage, and he had a generator with lots of fuel....the rest of her street, the houses were pretty much leveled.... there was no way to get out on to the street to drive anywhere, there was so much debree....(this is south Miami, they took the direct hit from Andrew) It was 2 1/2 weeks before my parents who lived in West palm beach, and me, who lived in Tampa, could get to her at her home in south Miami.....
My sister had supplies and food....at least a months worth, her neighbor with the generator let her hook her refrigerator up to his generator for two hours a day to keep her food good....
but she really needed 7 weeks worth not just a month and was very greatful to see us with supplies she could not get like lanturn oil for her hurricane lamps that she was having to use and we brought her four more hurricane lamps and food and water and gasoline for the generator next door....
I can't even imagine Katrina being worse than Miami after Andrew!!!!! Andrew was a monster and destroyed everything in its path! Cows were found in Naples, across the state, that came from farms in Miami....it stunk, it was a mess, it was something never in my life did I imagine could happen... an A bomb is what I thought on the way to my sister's...
And Katrina was worse, WOW!
Anyway, forget the appocalypse!!!!
but you should have enough supples to take care of you and your family at least for 2 months because YOU KNOW OUR GOVERNMENT will never be there to help you in a timely manner....they are ilprepared so YOU must be...
MY SISTER, suffers from a phobia after that experience with living through Andrew...
She NOW keeps 6 MONTHS supply, including a portable shower with water for a shower at least once a week for the 6 months...in her garage...she has every little thing that she wished she had had during the 7 weeks after Andrew without electricity...she bought a generator and stocks some fuel for it, she bought hurricane shutters and she bought another gun, ..... hahahaha lol
I am telling ya, this experience has scarred her for life and she will never, ever, be unprepared for any natural disaster!
And then, after she was stocked up she began nagging my parents and then me and matt to make sure we have supplies stocked up, for the "just in case" situation...she's anal about this...
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