Water storage: 1 gallon per person per day

[darxus]

FEMA 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.)

Comments

[morbidiqua.livejournal.com]

The problem with living in NYC is that there is no place to store this food and water. Where would I keep 90 Gallons of water? I don't even have closets. I guess I just better hope for the best.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's an unfortunate problem.

A bunch of photos of what people have done, although I think they all at least had a closet: http://zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=45540
(Found by google searching for: zombie squad food storage porn.)