Another Quake

[caligurl]

2 more ovenight! whoa! and the one yesterday afternoon downgraded to 4.9... i don't like this

i'm particularly worried about being on the "wrong" side of the san andreas tomorrow....

[Trek420]

caligurl "i'm particularly worried about being on the "wrong" side of the san andreas tomorrow.... "

is that the side that floats out to sea?


I've read one should plan to be on your own for about 72 hours. Most of us have camping supplies, good idea is to organize them outside your house in case of damage and you can't get in. Have plenty of water, non perishable food. I'm treating this as a reminder to be better prepared than I am.

[Irulan]

how many of you are truly prepared... several days worth of emergency supplies in weather proof accessible container that you'll be able to get to in event of the "big one?"

[caligurl]

yep... i'll be on the floating to sea side tomorrow!

we have all our camping gear in one spot in the garage... we do have an eathquake box.. but, sadly, it is out of date.. we really need to go through it!

we normally have water... but i think we drank it and never replenished it.. MUST do that..

however... tomorrow.. we'll be 3 hours from home and the dogs and cats will be home alone! i will really freak and panic if i can't get to them! (heck.. i freaked duing the hector mines quake cuz tyler was still a puppy and sleeping in a crate in the bedroom.. hubby was dragging me down the hall and i'm screaming "I WANT MY PUPPY! I WANT MY PUPPY!" (brie was following us!) not sure how i managed to get kassie in her cat carrier and in the car to safety! i'm such a drama queen! )

p.s. the camping stuff and earthquake box are on the shelf at the very front of the garage so we can dig through the rubble and get it... it's not outsidw where is really should be!

[Irulan]

we kept ours in a sealed 55 gal drum out in the yard. My hubby is a geologist, have to be earth-aware at our house.

Up here, now we just have to worry about fire storms, ice storms and ash from Mt St Helens or Raineir should they blow again. We get dust storms too but those aren't life threatening for most.

Irulan

[Trek420]

caligurl "yep... i'll be on the floating to sea side tomorrow!"

just think of the property value on ocean front property!

"we have all our camping gear in one spot in the garage... we do have an eathquake box.. but, sadly, it is out of date.. we really need to go through it!"

ok, none of you are invited to the pitty party so don't even think about crashing it. the thought just occured to me that my ex and I had the complete emergency set up: 3-4 huge boxes by the garage door with everything from soup to nuts including water enough for the neighborhood (rotated like clockwork each 6 months) even and this is most important, a hand operated coffee grinder.

So I'm starting over on all that. But if i run out of ground coffee, I'll be cranky and PK, if you're lurking I know where you live ;-)

"p.s. the camping stuff and earthquake box are on the shelf at the very front of the garage so we can dig through the rubble and get it... it's not outsidw where is really should be!"

What I've read says by the door is ok, just not well inside the house because with damage you might not be able to get all the way inside safely. But I see that Irulan and her live-in-Geologist (Everyobody sing! "it's so nice to have a Geologist in the house") keep theirs out in the yard. Probably wise.

I have a storage shed in the patio. I think that'll be the spot.

[Irulan]

But I see that Irulan and her live-in-Geologist (Everyobody sing! "it's so nice to have a Geologist in the house")

kept, kept. It's been a good 15+ years since we left the earthquake zone.

~I.

[Steph_in_TX]

Geez, I'll take my Texas tornados anyday over all the stuff you deal with. I know someone who refuses to move from CA to TX because she's afraid of a tornado...ummm, hello, there's generally warning of a tornado coming...I figure you need the gift of prophecy and a helicopter to avoid a quake!

Hoping you stay connected to the mainland...Steph

[Surlygirl]

[QUOTE=Trek420]caligurl "i'm particularly worried about being on the "wrong" side of the san andreas tomorrow.... "

is that the side that floats out to sea?


Sorry girls I know this is serious, I have family in Californina but I laughed my you know what off. Trek420 you are to funny.

[SadieKate]

Maybe it's all has to do with familiarity but even after being semi-thrown out of bed in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake and growing up with SoCal brush fires, I'll still take them to hurricanes, tornados, floods, etc.

[snapdragen]

I've read one should plan to be on your own for about 72 hours. Most of us have camping supplies, good idea is to organize them outside your house in case of damage and you can't get in. Have plenty of water, non perishable food. I'm treating this as a reminder to be better prepared than I am.

I have a friend who calls it his bugout kit for when the zombies come. OK - he's a little strange.....

[spazzdog]

I had a little "bugout kit" right after 9/11. I worked in Cambridge, just outside of Boston and that day was pretty bizarre around the office. Located across from a Fed Transportation building, we also were an active pharm. manufacturing facility... plus I was on the IT Disaster Recovery Team. I was one of the last allowed to leave that day (still out by 3 PM), but it was spooky. Noone on the subways, fewer still, by then, on the commuter rail.

I packed a kit in my courier bag and it went everywhere with me for about a month. I still have that dern can of SPAM...

spazz - in New England where there is no rock-n-roll, not even in the ground