Water storage: 1 gallon per person per day
May. 4th, 2010 02:56 pmFEMA recommends that everyone have enough food and water for, I believe, at least 3 months.
I encourage you to get in the habit of picking up an extra jug of water, and canned / dry food every time you shop.
Sure, you're not likely to need it, but this is two of the three requirements for human survival, and a fire extinguisher isn't even on the list. (Shelter is the other.) Consider the possibility of people in your household simultaneously becoming unemployed - having food covered would be nice.
FEMA suggests commercially bottled water because it keeps well. I think at my local store, gallon jugs are actually the cheapest (less than $1 per gallon).
http://www.fema.gov/plan/prepare/water.shtm
There are, of course, a number of options for ordering food for long term storage by the pallet:
http://www.aaoobfoods.com/
http://www.mreinfo.com/
The only bottled water
cathijosephine will not drink is Poland Spring.
1 year of food and water seems like a good goal to me.
I finally got around to watching Zombieland. I watched it twice.
(The Boston area suddenly ran out of drinkable tap water Saturday.)
I encourage you to get in the habit of picking up an extra jug of water, and canned / dry food every time you shop.
Sure, you're not likely to need it, but this is two of the three requirements for human survival, and a fire extinguisher isn't even on the list. (Shelter is the other.) Consider the possibility of people in your household simultaneously becoming unemployed - having food covered would be nice.
FEMA suggests commercially bottled water because it keeps well. I think at my local store, gallon jugs are actually the cheapest (less than $1 per gallon).
http://www.fema.gov/plan/prepare/water.shtm
There are, of course, a number of options for ordering food for long term storage by the pallet:
http://www.aaoobfoods.com/
http://www.mreinfo.com/
The only bottled water
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1 year of food and water seems like a good goal to me.
I finally got around to watching Zombieland. I watched it twice.
(The Boston area suddenly ran out of drinkable tap water Saturday.)