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.)

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[center.livejournal.com]

it's not three months, it's three days.

http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/assemble_disaster_supplies_kit.shtm

Additionally some documents suggest two weeks. http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/f&web.pdf

I'm not sure what the minimum amount of water is that is needed for human survival, but I would think three months of typical daily consumption worth would take up a heck of a lot of space.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

FEMA says one gallon a day. 90 jugs for 3 months.

Gallon jugs are about 6x6x10.5". Say 11.5" to include shelving thickness. With a max height of 7', you get 7 jugs in vertically, which means you need 13 per shelf.

Two deep, that's 3.5 feet wide, by 1 foot out from the wall. Per person.

Load bearing capability of the floor should be considered. That's 720 pounds of water.