Let Katrina be a lesson to everybody living in a blue Urban area

[Walt Starr]

The federal government won't help you until they can stage a photo op, so what you need, just to survive, is as follows:

1) 10 (yep, TEN) days supply of water. You never know what friend or acquaintance might show up on your doorstep begging for help. Better be ssure you have ten days of water.

2) 10 days supply of freeze dried food (remember, this adds to the amount of water you need for survival). Camp food is good. so are MREs.

3) Guns

4) Ammunition

The guns and ammo are perhaps the most important part of all. There will be no authority, so you must do whatever you have to in order to protect yourself, your family, and your supplies.

[Corgigal]

1. Honey

I'm living in a red state. I don't think it matter to him what state a crisis happens in now. His election is over.

[Dr Fate]

2. A propane camp stove, batt. powered radio, an axe, canned goods...

...first aid kits, cash money, tarps, blankets, flares, bright flags, extra batteries, lighters, clean clothes & blankets, extra boots.
Extra meds & eye-glasses, flash-lights, lanterns...

I live in San Francisco and now I know that if there is an earth quake, it will be Mad Max land for days.

I'll also be getting my Dad to ship my old hunting rifles & shot guns from Georgia.

[Kingshakabobo]

3. AND, with guns and ammo you can take other people's stuff

if you don't stock-up enough. -end freeper mode-

[FlaGranny]

25. You don't need to take other people's stuff

if you prepare well. You just need to protect yourself. After our relatively minimal hurricanes in this part of the state last year, I learned that you need at least 10 days worth of supplies. No matter what you hear on TV or the news - those Red Cross and FEMA people do not go into neighborhoods. They set up regional supply centers and wait for you to come to them. They did drive by about 3 blocks away once or twice with loudspeakers, but no way you could get to them in time before they drove on - a rather useless way to try to get supplies to people.

We are lucky here. We are surrounded by drainage canals, we don't flood (no matter how hard it rains), we were able to get dirty water and rain water to flush our toilets (when totally necessary). We had bleach to purify the water and we could bathe in it. If we had run out of drinking water, I have water purification tablets. The thing in the Gulf is that none of these things would have helped most of those people - their stuff was washed away. We lived in 95 degree heat and high humidity for two weeks without a/c and electricity. We got our telephone service back in about a week. No one, except your neighbors, ask how you are and whether you need something.

That's how things are.

[Lindacooks]

4. Canned foods, shelf stable foods too

Plus recipes that you can make by just combining foods - if you want links PM me - I'm not going to post my site here with all the freepers trolling.

And don't forget manual can openers, and disposable forks, knives, plates, spoons, bowls.

AND ONE GALLON OF WATER PER PERSON PER DAY, MINIMUM.

[Dr Fate]

6. Yes- a can opener- we forget the little things. Lighters, candles...

Can we compile a master list?

[nolabels]

13. Like heck, move away already

Find a nice lonely backwater with some acreage, tap a nice deep well, hook up solar panels to to get off the grid, put in a nice deep basement (40 ft down at least). Then stock up at least ten thousands rounds of ammo and a years worth of food, gasoline and other necessities. Get that back up generator and motor-home in case you need to evacuate the area. Set up tank traps and moots in case of an invasion by an unfriendly army. Yet most of all get a Satellite phone and satellite internet service so we all can keep in contact to see how you are doing :crazy:

[maine_raptor]

15. And don't forget...

to make sure you have setup a clear field of fire for that M60 or Ma Duce by the bunker entrance. :crazy:

[LizMoonstar]

23. hi there, fellow paranoia-kid! can we be friends? n/t

[crispini]

5. Yes.

:kick:

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Considering the Coke-Addict Fuckwad In Chief left NYC in the dust,

promising 20 billion, then giving nothing, until Hillary was able to at least get a commitment of 10 billion (which the feds probably still haven't given), and now seeing what's happened in NO, I agree with you.

If you live in a blue area, and disaster strikes, you are fucked and you are on your own.

Pretty sad when it gets to the point of having to ask when you are voting "Do I vote for the good guy, or do I vote for the republican to helkp increase our chances of actually getting aid if disaster strikes".

[4 t 4]

9. The state doesn't matter

its the color of your skin and how much money you make. You know kinda like the mostly white have and have mores!!!!

[4 t 4]

10. The state doesn't matter

its the color of your skin and how much money you make. You know kinda like the mostly white have and have mores!!!!

[spuddonna]

8. Hubby and I are saying the same thing...

Need to build the kit...

[demo dutch]

11. Used to it -Those are actually the recommendations in hurricane-prone FL

Took 5 days after Andrew for Govt to come in. but what is you can afford it and your house floods and disappears? Hever owned a gung when sorry to say that we decided to get one after going thru Andrew, we had no choice. Looter came into neighborhoods looting peoples home etc. Authorities were clueless and overhwelmed. Gee I would have thought they had learned their lesson then.

[LoneDriver]

12. Be ready

We in CA now know what to expect when 'The Big One' happens.

[Freddie Stubbs]

14. #5. If they tell you to evacuate,

do it!

[Dr Fate]

18. That does not help us in Earthquake areas.

n/t

[Coventina]

20. Yeah, it's that easy for people who don't have transportation or $$$$

They tell you to have 3 days worth of food & water as well.

How are people who are living hand-to-mouth going to do that?

[mondo joe]

21. Like they told people to go to the NO convention center

and left them there to die.

[Dr Fate]

16. I am keeping a master list updated here- thanks Walt:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4586084

[Misunderestimator]

17. Perhaps the scariest outcome of this may be the numbers of people

who will now feel it necessary to own a gun. Our government has abandoned us all.

[mondo joe]

22. Count me among them. If I didn't have kids I'd have bought one

already. But I'm still very conflicted about having one in a house with kids.

[Mutley]

19. I always felt silly for having a couple of emergency supplies stocked up.

Not anymore.

[ComerPerro]

24. They'd do it to a Red area too

its not like the Republicans in the area will protest, or turn on the party.

[OhioChick]

26. For the past several years

I've always had some emergency supplies on hand. It's a good idea.

[Chovexani]

27. Welcome to New York's reality

We've known that shit since 9/11 around here.

[AX10]

28. Bush is a Nazi then.