So, do y'all store emergency water at home? If not, why not ( Read more... )

This morning on the Diane Rehm show on NPR, they were talking about the security of the nation's ports. One of the guests brought up an interesting point... that because there are so many different opportunities along the supply chain, if a dirty bomb or other device were to arrive somewhere in the U.S. via container, the U.S. would have no choice ( Read more... )

Given that it doesn't take a disaster for a city's water to become suddenly undrinkable (just incompetence), that most people can't afford to buy all of the water they need if city water was unavailable or contaminated, and that most areas of the U.S. have plenty of water available from rainfall, rivers, streams, ponds and lakes, a discussion of ( Read more... )

I'm intersted in picking up a book or two that will help in my disaster preparation. Specifically, I'd like something about emergency home medical care--something that can tell me how to stitch up a cut, set a broken bone, things I might have to do in a disaster because we're cut off from medical care. I'd also like something that gives ( Read more... )

This page is primarily about how to prepare for a major earthquake in the California area; however, it covers possible other sources of water in your home should the plumbing fail, various methods of storing emergency water, and gives ratios of how much bleach to water to use to disinfect found water.