Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (tinned food etc)

Re:Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (... by gotthemwmds on Sunday November 13, 2016 @05:04PM (#12945943)

Having lived on big fault lines my entire life (Salt Lake City and Seattle), I have been trained from kindergarten on about what to do in an earthquake.

In the closet of my 7th floor apartment I have 1 small-ish backpack full of a handful of useful things like a crank weather radio and some flashlights (all bought on clearance over the years). I also have an orange home depot bucket full of non-perishable, high-calorie food I got off Amazon. And a few cases of water. It takes up about 15% of my closet. I bet I could make the food/water last for a month if I had to.

So the answer is yes! But not everyone did earthquake drills four times a year during 12 years of public school... I am 33.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (... by danso on Sunday November 13, 2016 @05:26PM (#12946055)

What does your food supply consist of? MREs, or things like peanut butter?

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Re:Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (... by gotthemwmds on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:36AM (#12947766)

Similar to MRE, I guess. I honestly haven't eaten one. I got them via the advice of a sorta crazy friend of mine who has a bunker full of similar things (and guns) on his farmland.

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