Emergency Preparedness

I've been doing a lot of thinking about disaster preparedness. This is partly due to Obama winning the election, and partly due to just the facts of life in our current world. Some things we have been doing:

a) compiled a list of all local, state, and federal emergency information. This includes power plants, water plants, police, fire, hospitals, FEMA chapters, our county's official in charge of disaster coordination, MODOT, etc. We printed out website, phone, e-mail, and physical addresses of all of the above and put copies on our desks at home, in the basement, and a few extra for our cars.

b) started stockpiling resources. TP, bottled water, latex gloves, plastic sheeting, duct tape, hydrogen peroxide, canned food, wound care items (gauze, antibiotic cream, general first aid kits you can buy at the drug store), OTC pain relievers, prescriptions, soap, hygiene items, etc.

c) weapons. To maintain privacy, I won't go into the exact types of weapons we own. But it's enough to scare off some n'er-do-wells if chaos hits the streets.

d) I still need to get some disaster/survivalist manuals, especially the kind that detail how to hunt effectively, survive a cold winter/hot summer, find water sources, filter water, nuclear survival, etc.

Some cool sites:

Captain Dave's Survival Guide

BC Adventure

Last Alive

SurvivalX

*update* I would also like to have mobile home out somewhere in the Missouri hills with an underground shelter and a generator. I would also like there to be a well and electricity would be optional, since in the event of a major disaster power would be off anyways. If we do end up being able to snag some property someday with a mobile home, I won't tell anyone where it is, or that I even have it. I would just like to have one. :)