Disaster preparedness list

[badkarma56]

Let's see here...guns and ammo, CHECK! Water, canned goods, batteries and flashlights, CHECK! I'm good to go, I'll work on the rest later.

Seriously, I've got a "grab bag" with about 72 hours worth of stuff that I keep in reserve. It contains some energy bars, MRE's, water, emergency/survival blanket, beeswax survival candles, etc.; enough to scrape by for a few days on the move, if necessary. If the emergency doesn't require us to evacuate the house, the wife and I have got a good supply of food/water, enough to last for a couple of weeks.

[Liberty]

My school had a basement classroom that was also a nuke shelter. It had enough crackers and peanut butter in there to keep many people alive until they died of nutritional deficiencies due to eating only crackers and peanut butter.

Glad i was born near the end of that madness, must have been a crazy time.

ETA: They also crammed the entire high school in there during tornado drills, but half the school had to walk past the library to get there and the hallway past the library was nothing but large glass windows on both sides.

I was in the 5th grade during the Kennedy missile crisis. And they gave us the obligatory duck and lecture. Part of the lecture consisted of informing us that glass walled building we were in offered virtually no protection from a thermonuclear event and we would all likely die anyway. At 9 years old it made a deep impressession on me, and my schoolmates. I don't think many of us really thought about people intentionally trying to kill us before.