just in case food

[bmccasland]

Make sure you have a water source, and a method to heat the water as well, in your emergency supply kit. Having lived through a few hurricanes, where the tap water wasn't potable for a couple of weeks (after the city was opened to return), it's important to have a water supply too. I wound up raiding my "hurricane" water when my water main line broken last spring. At least I had drinking water.
Know how you plan to heat the water - what kind of fuel will you need. Propane? Is your camp stove in working order? Do you own a camp stove?
My sister has learned that boiling water over a charcoal grill in the winter isn't much fun (she didn't own a camp stove, does now).
Which reminds me, I need to go get some propane for my camp stove, the movers found my stash in my camp box and wouldn't tansport it. Spoil sports.

Thanks for the dried food sources. I kind of got tired of MREs.

[sundial]

Beth, good idea. We do have a camp stove and a BBQ grill that runs on propane as well as my gas stove. I am thinking of getting a Berkley travel water filtration system in case we have to bug out in the worst case scenario.

[PamNY]

Thanks for the food ideas.

I have a Trangia alcohol stove -- because the fuel is safer/easier for me to store in an apartment. I would use the Trangia indoors, briefly, in a shelter-in-place situation.

[Zen]

I have a coke can/denatured alcohol stove

[tulip]

I have a woodstove, but if I were in a big earthquake and my house fell down, I guess that wouldn't be very useful. But it's great when the power goes out because of the ice storms we get.

I don't stock up on tons of food, but it's something I've thought about from time to time.

[malkin]

I'm doomed in a disaster.
I hope you survivors will give me a proper burial.

[tzvia]

I bought a big water heater, so can shut off the water after an earthquake and use that as my drinking supply. Done that before, works well. Also have those tablets and a filter system in case I need to get water from a local stream. And yes, I know where the rabbits and deer are, and have suitable rifles for both, in case I need to trek up the local hills for food. With a good sized pantry that I rotate, and lots of canned goods, I think I can last a bit after a quake, provided the house is in good enough shape to enter it, that is. Got the camping gear too, and can walk over to a public park a block away, and camp there. Lots of rabbits just so happen to live way at the back, where it butts up against the Santa Monica mountains conservancy.

Provided we just lose power and the house stands, I had my electrician setup a breaker that allows me to attach my generator to my house to run the refrigerators (got two).

Yea, water is the big problem. If we have a quake in the middle of summer big enough to damage the aqueduct, there will be riots within a few days. No way on earth the state or fed can get enough water to L.A. to satisfy the survivors, with freeways collapsed, airports damaged, and riots happening. It will make Katrina look like a pimple on a elephant.