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In honor of Hurricane Irene
If you were for some reason trapped in your house/apartment for a week with no electricity, would you have enough food and water, in your cabinets/fridge right now, for those that live there to make it through the week? ( and yes, I do know that in hurricanes you're supposed to evacuate, not stay trapped in your house, I was just thinking about this because of the general "omg we're all gonna die!" attitude of the news media here right now.)
Re: In honor of Hurricane Irene
I don't have enough bottled water, but you can fill up your tub for that purpose anyway. We'd be okay for food--minus ingredients to make tacos (see post below).
I'm a hurricane expert though. I grew up in hurricane central (Gulf Coast) and never once evacuated for a hurricane. I even had my wedding during a category 2--Hurricane Gustav in 2008. I spent 3 days without power once with my entire family together in my aunt's house. At 10 years old, that was a fun 3 days.
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I'm short on water, but I've definitely got 7days worth of wine.
If it worked for the ancient Romans, it'll work for me. Lu-lu gets dibs on the H2O in the event of an emergency (even if the taps were running, Naples tap is questionable at best).
Hurricane question for Shekels: if you live on the 3rd floor during a hurricane should you go to the basement like a tornado (assuming you can't evacuate)?
Food, we'd be fine, but we might get a little thirsty by the end. Possibly enough milk, juice, and beer to get us through.
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for a week no. a few days, definitely.
we have water, crackers, bread, pb, granola bars, canned beans. tons of stuff to cook in the freezer if we could go outside and turn on the grill. i did put some shelf stable milk on my list this time around only becuase my kids drink so much of it now if we even had to go a full 24 hours without milk it might be problematic. i'll already be on edge and add my jonesing milk-a-holic kids to the mix and it would be bad! oh and we're gonna grab some not quite ripe bananas, too.
Probably not have enough water but I'd fill up the tubs--my mom has a huge jacuzzi tub that would hold a crap load of water.
Food, definitely not, since we eat out 2x a day (my parents live next to their golf club where they have an account). There's like cereal and enough fiber one bars to live on for a week though. Although that would be a problem without working toilets!
It really depends. Hurricanes can produce both tornadoes and have high winds, so the concern would be the windows and doors and confidence in the structure. I'd definitely reinforce and stay away from windows, take down everything from the walls and stay in the most interior part of the apartment at the least. Depending on the hurricane strength, I'd be more inclined to go down to the lowest level if I were above the 3rd floor.
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But since you are in Boston, I think your main concern would be flooding not so much wind damage. So, I would stay up on the 3rd floor.
Water yes, if we filled the tub and buckets we have beforehand. We are on a well than runs off an electric pump, so we can't flush even though we have extra water. Food? Yes. Definitely. We just stocked up on food for 50 guests for a party on Saturday. As long as we don't get sick of burgers, hot dogs, sausage and chicken we are all good.
We lost power for a good while during the tornadoes in June. That was frightening as we are on the top of a large hill with trees all around us. Our town just signed for a program called CodeRED which acts as a reverse 911 system. So we will know what's going on even if the power goes out.
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