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darxus ([personal profile] darxus) wrote2010-05-04 02:56 pm
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Water storage: 1 gallon per person per day

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.)

[identity profile] plug-them-in.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
heh. i don't drink Poland Spring water either.

[identity profile] cathijosephine.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting. May I ask why not?

[identity profile] plug-them-in.livejournal.com 2010-05-05 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
can't totally remember but I can think of three reasons:

1) my folks always bought deer park and I just became accustomed to it.

2) I remember in the late 90s/early 00s about some issue Poland Spring had with one of their plants.

3) My roommate in college drank Poland Spring and I just grew to despise everything he's stood for.

How about you?