WHAT TO DO IF A NUCLEAR DISASTER IS IMMINENT!
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This
guide is for families preparing for imminent terrorist or strategic nuclear
attacks with expected severe destruction followed by widespread radioactive
fallout downwind. IF ONLY A 'Dirty Bomb' Attack (Not the vastly more devastating
nuclear weapon blasts with fallout discussed below.)
- You can expect localized and downwind contamination from the explosion
and dispersed radioactive materials. If you are near enough to see or
hear any local bomb blast, assume that it includes radiological or chemical
agents. You should move away from the blast area as quickly as possible.
If the wind is blowing toward you from the direction of the blast, travel
in a direction that is crosswise or perpendicular to the wind as you move
away from the blast area. If possible cover your face with a dust mask
or cloth to avoid inhaling potentially radioactive dust. Upon reaching
a safe location, remove your outer clothing outside and shower as soon
as possible. Refer to local news sources for additional instructions about
sheltering or evacuation. The government is better prepared to direct
and assist the public in a 'dirty bomb' incident, unlike an actual nuclear
weapon attack discussed below. In a national crisis of imminent nuclear
weapon attacks, read all the way through this guide first,
THEN TAKE EFFECTIVE PROTECTIVE ACTION WITH CONFIDENCE...
FAST!
#1 - STAY OR GO?
You must decide FIRST if you need to prepare where you are, or attempt
evacuation. The nature of the threat, your prior preparations, and your
confidence in your sources of information should direct your decision.
If you know already you will be preparing to stay at your own home or,
at least, the immediate local area, go now to #2 below.
If you are considering evacuation, your decision requires a very high
confidence that it is worth the risk. You do not want to get stuck between
your current location and your hoped for destination, as there will probably
be no easy getting back. If you fail to get to your destination, you may
be exposed without shelter, in a dangerous situation with little effective
law enforcement, perhaps among panicked hordes of refugees. Whatever supplies
you have may be limited then to what you can carry on foot. IF you are
in a big city or near a military target, AND you have relatives or friends
in the country that you know are awaiting you, AND the roads between you
and them are clear, AND the authorities are not yet restricting traffic,
AND you have the means and fuel, evacuation may be a viable option for
a limited time. DO NOT attempt evacuation if all of the above is not clearly
known, or if the situation is deteriorating too quickly to make the complete
trip. You do not want to get stuck and/or become a refugee being herded
along with panicked masses. If evacuation is truly a viable option, do
not wait - GO NOW! Do so with as many of the supplies listed on the last
page as possible. Better to be two days too early in arriving than two
hours too late and getting snagged mid-way, potentially exposing your
family to a worse fate than having stayed where you were. Because of the
very real danger of getting caught in an evacuation stampede that stalls,
almost all families will be better off making the best of it wherever
they currently are.
#2
- WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FIRST
Because time is of the essence, you need to first delegate and assign
to different adult family members specific tasks so they can all be accomplished
at the same time. Your first priorities to assure your family survival
are Shelter, Water, and Food/Supplies. While some are working on the water
storage and shelter at home, others need to be acquiring, as much
as possible, the food and supplies.
#3 - FOOD/SUPPLIES
Because much of the food and supplies listed on the last page of this
guide may quickly become unavailable, you need to assign someone NOW to
immediately go to the stores with that list! Get cash from the bank and
ATM's first, but try and use credit cards at the stores, if at all possible,
to preserve your cash.
#4 - WATER
With one or more adults now heading to the stores with the list on the
last page, those remaining need to begin storing water IMMEDIATELY! Lack
of clean water will devastate your family much more quickly and more severely
than any lack of food. Without water for both drinking and continued good
sanitary practices in food preparation and for bathroom excursions (which
will inevitably be much less sanitary than normal), debilitating sickness
could rampage through your household with little hope of prompt medical
attention. That is a highly likely but, avoidable, disaster, ONLY IF you
have enough water. Every possible container needs to be filled with water
RIGHT NOW! It will be very hard to have stored too much water. When the
electricity/pumps go down or everybody in your community is doing the
same thing, thus dropping the water pressure, what you've got is all you
might be getting for a very long time. Empty pop bottles (1-3 liter) are
ideal for water storage, also filling up the bathtub and washing machine.
(Remember, later you'll have some in your hot water tank.) If you have
any kiddie pools or old water beds, pull them out and fill them up, too.
(Water from a water bed should be used only for bathing or cleaning, not
for drinking as it may contain traces of algaecide and/or fungicides.)
Anything and everything that'll hold water needs to be filled up quickly
RIGHT NOW!! One of the shopping items listed on the last page is new garbage
cans and liner bags which you'll also use for storing water. If you can't
get any more new cans, you could clean out an existing garbage can and
scrub it throughout with bleach, then put in a new garbage bag liner and
fill it with water. Even sturdy boxes could be used with bag liners. (Use
two liners if they are very thin/flimsy.) Choose well where you fill up
garbage cans with water because they won't easily be moved once full and
many of them together could be too heavy for some upper floor locations.
Ideally, they need to be very near where your shelter will be constructed
and can actually add to its shielding properties, as you'll see below.
BE ASSURED, YOU CANNOT STORE AND HAVE TOO MUCH WATER! Do not hesitate,
fill up every possible container, RIGHT NOW!
#5 - SHELTER
The principles of radiation protection are simple - with many options
and resources families can use to prepare or improvise a very effective
shelter. You must throw off the self-defeating myths of nuclear un-survivability
that may needlessly seal the fate of less informed families. Radioactive
fallout is the particulate matter (dust) produced by a nuclear explosion
and carried high up into the air by the mushroom cloud. It drifts on the
wind and most of it settles back to earth downwind of the explosion. The
heaviest, most dangerous, and most noticeable fallout, will 'fall out'
first close to ground zero. It may begin arriving minutes after an explosion.
While the smaller and lighter dust-like particles will typically be arriving
hours later, as they drift much farther downwind, often for hundreds of
miles. As it settles, whether you can see it or not, fallout will accumulate
and blow around everywhere just like dust or light snow does on the ground
and roofs. Wind and rain can concentrate the fallout into localized 'hot
spots' of much more intense radiation with no visible indication of its
presence. This radioactive fallout 'dust' is dangerous because it is emitting
penetrating radiation energy (similar to x-ray's). This radiation (not
the fallout dust) can go right through walls, roofs and protective clothing.
Even if you manage not to inhale or ingest the dust, and keep it off your
skin, hair, and clothes, and even if none gets inside your house, the
radiation penetrating your home is still extremely dangerous, and can
injure or kill you inside. Radioactive fallout from a nuclear explosion,
though very dangerous initially, loses its intensity quickly because it
is giving off so much energy. For example, fallout emitting gamma ray
radiation at a rate of 500 R/hr (fatal with one hour of exposure) shortly
after an explosion, weakens to only 1/10th as strong 7 hours later. Two
days later, it's only 1/100th as strong, or as deadly, as it was initially.
That is really very good news, because our families can readily survive
it IF we get them into a proper shelter to safely wait it out as it becomes
less dangerous with every passing hour. What stops radiation, and thus
shields your family, is simply putting mass between them and the radiation
source. Like police body armor stopping bullets, mass stops (absorbs)
radiation. The thicker the mass, the more radiation it stops. Also, the
denser (heavier) the mass used, the more effective it is with every inch
more you add to your fallout shelter. The thickness in inches needed to
cut the radiation down to only 1/10th of its initial intensity for different
common materials is: Steel 3.3", concrete 11", earth 16",
water 24", wood 38", etc. The thickness required to stop 99%
of the radiation is: 5" of steel, 16" of solid brick or hollow
concrete blocks filled with mortar or sand, 2 feet of packed earth or
3 feet if loose, 3 feet of water. You may not have enough steel available,
but anything you do have will have mass and can be used to add to your
shielding- it just takes more thickness of lighter wood, for example,
than heavier earth, to absorb and stop the same amount of radiation. Increasing
the distance between your family and the radiation outside also reduces
the radiation intensity.
The goals of your family fallout shelter are:
• To maximize the distance away from the fallout 'dusting' outside
on the ground and roof
• To place sufficient mass between your family and the fallout to
absorb the deadly radiation
• To make the shelter tolerable to stay in while the radiation subsides
with every passing hour
While a fallout shelter can be built anywhere, you should see what your
best options are at home or nearby. Some structures already provide significant
shielding or partial shielding that can be enhanced for adequate protection.
If you do not have a basement available, you can still use the techniques
shown below in any above ground structure, but you'll need to use more
mass to achieve the same level of shielding. You may consider using other
solid structures nearby, especially those with below ground spaces, such
as commercial buildings, schools, churches, below ground parking garages,
large and long culverts, tunnels, etc.. Some of these may require permissions
and/or the acquiring of additional materials to minimize any fallout drifting
or blowing into them, if open ended. Buildings with a half-dozen or more
floors, where there is not a concern of blast damage, may provide good
radiation protection in the center of the middle floors. This is because
of both the distance and the shielding the multiple floors provide from
the fallout on the ground and roof.
Bottom Line: choose a structure nearby with both the greatest mass and
distance already in place between the outside, where the fallout would
settle, and the shelter inside. If you have a basement in your home, or
at a nearby relatives' or friends' house that you can use, your best option
is probably to fortify and use it, unless you have ready access to a better/deeper
structure nearby. For an expedient last-minute basement shelter, push
a heavy table that you can get under into the corner that has the soil
highest on the outside. The ground level outside ideally needs to be above
the top of the inside shelter. If no heavy table is available, you can
take internal doors off their hinges and lay them on supports to create
your 'table'. Then pile any available mass on and around it such as books,
wood, cordwood, bricks, sandbags, heavy furniture, full file cabinets,
full water containers, your food stocks, and boxes and pillow cases full
of anything heavy, like earth. Everything you could pile up and around
it has mass that will help absorb and stop more radiation from penetrating
inside - the heavier the better. However, be sure to reinforce your table
and supports so you do not overload it and risk collapse. Leave a small
crawl-through entrance and more mass there that can be easily pulled in
after you to seal it up. Have at least two gaps or 4-6" square air
spaces, one high at one end and one low at the other. Use more if crowded
and/or hotter climate. A small piece of cardboard can help fan fresh air
in if the natural rising warmer air convection current needs an assist
moving the air along. This incoming air won't need to be filtered if the
basement has been reasonably sealed up, however any windows or other openings
will require some solid mass coverage to assure they stay sealed and to
provide additional shielding protection for the basement. More details
on this in the next (#6) section.
IN THE OPEN HOUSE WITHOUT BASEMENT
NO PROTECTION SLIGHT PROTECTION
HOUSE WITH BASEMENT HOUSE WITH SHELTER
FAIR PROTECTION BEST PROTECTION
With more time, materials, and carpentry or masonry skills, you could
even construct a more formal fallout shelter, such as the lean-to shown
to the right, but you should pile up much more mass.
An effective fallout shelter constructed in a basement may reduce your
radiation exposure 100-200 fold. Thus, if the initial radiation intensity
outside was 500 R/hr (fatal in one hour), the basement shelter occupants
might only experience 5 R/hr or even less, which is survivable, as the
radiation intensity will be decreasing with every passing hour. Adding
mass on the floor above your chosen basement corner, and outside against
the walls opposite your shelter, can dramatically increase your shielding
protection. Every inch thicker adds up to more effective life-saving radiation
shielding. As cramped as that crawl space fallout shelter might seem,
the vital shielding provided by simply moving some mass into place could
be the difference between exposure to a lethal dose of radiation and the
survival of your family. The majority of people requiring any sheltering
at all will be many miles downwind, and they will not need to stay sheltered
for weeks on end. In fact, most people will only need to stay sheltered
full-time for a few days before they can start coming out briefly to attend
to quick essential chores. Later, they can begin spending ever more time
out of the shelter daily, only coming back in to sleep. As miserable as
it might seem now, you and your family can easily endure that, especially
compared to the alternative. It's really not so difficult to build an
effective family fallout shelter, not to get it done... RIGHT NOW!
#6 - ESSENTIAL DETAILS
If you've accomplished the above; securing your supplies, stored
water, and built your family fallout shelter, CONGRATULATIONS! You have
now succeeded in improving the odds of survival for your family 100-fold,
or more! Now, you need to expand your knowledge and fine-tune the tactics
that will make the most of your family survival strategy.
• Government information and guidance is a vital resource in your
response to a nuclear crisis, but for many reasons it may be late, incomplete,
misleading or simply in error. While evacuation might be prudent for individuals
who act quickly in response to a threat, governments will be slow to call
for mass evacuations because of their potential for panic and gridlock.
As the recent government calls for duct tape and plastic sheeting led
to sold-out stores, anxiety, and derision from the press, there will be
great reluctance to issue similar alarms. If you want to assure that you
have adequate food and supplies for your family you must act BEFORE the
panic without first waiting for government instructions that may never
come or as urgently as warranted. You alone are ultimately responsible
for your family.
• Filtering the air coming into your basement shelter won't be required.
Air does not become radioactive, and if your basement is reasonably snug,
there won't be any wind blowing through it to carry the radioactive fallout
dust inside. Simply sealing any basement windows and other openings prevents
significant fallout from getting inside. To improve both the radiation
shielding inside the basement, and to protect the windows from being broken
and letting fallout blow in later, you should cover them all with wood,
and then with sandbags or solid masonry blocks or earth, etc. on the outside
and inside too, if possible. If the basement air gets seriously stale
later on, you could re-open a door into the upper floors of the still
closed house, or secure a common furnace air filter over an outside air
opening leading into your basement.
• Regarding fallout contamination, any food or water stored in sealed
containers, that can later have any fallout dust brushed or rinsed off
the outside of the container, will then be safe to use. As long as the
fallout dust does not get inside the container, then whatever radiation
penetrated the food/water container from the outside does not harm the
contents. If you suspect that your clothes have fallout on them, remove
your outer clothing before you come inside and leave them outside. A cheap
plastic hooded rain poncho that can be easily rinsed off or left outside
is very worthwhile. Have water and baby shampoo near the entrance (hose
and containers) to wash and thoroughly rinse any exposed skin and hair.
Exposure to fallout radiation does not make you radioactive, but you need
to assure that you don't bring any inside. If any are stricken with radiation
sickness, typically nausea, it is when mild (<100 Rads) 100% recoverable
and cannot be passed on to others. Before fallout arrives, you might also
try to cover up items you want to protect outside for easier rinsing off
of the fallout dust later when it's safe to come out and do so. For instance,
if you have a vegetable gardening spot, you might try covering much of
it with plastic or tarp and weighting them down.
• If without sufficient time to acquire radiological instruments
of your own, like Geiger counters and dosimeters, you'll need to be extra
sure that your portable radios function properly from inside your shelter
and that you have plenty of fresh batteries stocked for them. Without
radiological instruments, listening for official guidance about the radiation
threat levels in your particular area will be the only way you'll know
when it's becoming safe to venture out. It might also be the only way
you'll know when you first need to take your initial maximum protective
action. When not in use, they should not be attached to any outside antenna
or even have their own antenna extended. And, they should be wrapped in
any non-conducting insulation, like layers of paper or bubble wrap plastic
and then stored in a metal container or wrapped in aluminum foil to minimize
the potential of EMP ruining the electronics. Having back-up radios would
be very prudent. With extra radios, you can have one always tuned to the
closest likely target city and, if it suddenly goes off the air, that
could be your first indication of an attack.
• If close to a target, your first indication of a nuclear detonation
may be with its characteristic blinding bright flash. The first effects
you may have to deal with before radioactive fallout arrives, depending
on your proximity to it, are blast and thermal energy. Promptly employing
the old "Duck & Cover" strategy will save many from avoidable
flying
debris injuries and minimize thermal burns. Those very close will experience
tornado strength winds and should quickly dive behind any solid object
or into any available depression, culvert, basement, etc. A 500 kiloton
blast, 2.2 miles away, will arrive about 8 seconds after the detonation
flash with about a 295 mph wind blast that lasts about three seconds.
An even larger 1 MT (megaton) blast, 5 miles away, will arrive in about
20 seconds. Hopefully, you are not near any target area 'ground zero'
and will only, like the vast majority, have to deal with the fallout later.
• When fallout is first anticipated, even though it has not yet
arrived, have anybody still outside begin wearing dust protector filter
masks and hooded rain ponchos. Everyone should begin taking Potassium
Iodide (KI) or Potassium Iodate (KIO3) tablets for thyroid protection
against cancer causing radioactive iodine, a major product of nuclear
weapons explosions. If no tablets available, you can topically (on the
skin) apply an iodine solution, like tincture of iodine or Betadine, for
a similar protective effect. (WARNING: Iodine solutions are NEVER to be
ingested or swallowed.) For adults, paint 8 ml of a 2 percent tincture
of Iodine on the abdomen or forearm each day, ideally at least 2 hours
prior to possible exposure. For children 3 to 18, but under 150 pounds,
only half that amount painted on daily, or 4 ml. For children under 3
but older than a month, half again, or 2 ml. For newborns to 1 month old,
half it again, or just 1 ml. (One measuring teaspoon is about 5 ml, if
you don't have a medicine dropper graduated in ml.) If your iodine is
stronger than 2%, reduce the dosage accordingly. Absorption through the
skin is not as reliable a dosing method as using the tablets, but tests
show that it will still be very effective for most. Do not use if allergic
to iodine. If at all possible, inquire of your doctor NOW if there is
any reason why anybody in your household should not use KI or KIO3 tablets,
or iodine solutions on their skin, in a future nuclear emergency, just
to be sure.
• When you know that the time to take protective action is approaching,
turn off all the utilities into the house, check that everything is sealed
up and locked down, and head for the shelter. You should also check that
you have near your shelter additional tools, crow bars, and car jacks
for digging out later, if required. Also, any building supplies, tools,
sheet plastic, staple guns, etc. for plugging any holes from damage. Your
basement should already be very well sealed against fallout drifting inside.
Now, you'll need to seal around the last door you use to enter with duct
tape all around the edges, especially if it's a direct to the outside
door.
• You don't need to risk fire, burns, and asphyxiation trying to
cook anything in the cramped shelter space, if you have pre-positioned
in your shelter enough canned goods, can opener, and other non-perishable
foods, that are ready-to-eat without preparation. More food, along with
water, can be located right outside your crawl space entrance that you
can pull in quickly as needed when safe to do so.
• For lighting needs within the shelter have many small LED flashlights
or LED head-lamps to stretch your battery life. Try not to have to use
candles if at all possible. Bring in some books for yourself and games
for the children. Maybe throw in a small/thin mattress, some cushions,
blankets, pillows, etc.
• Toilet use will be via the 5 gallon bucket with a seat borrowed
from one of the house bathrooms, if you did not purchase a separate one.
Garbage bag liners, preferably sized for it, should always be used and
a full-size and bag lined garbage can should be positioned very close
to the shelter entrance for depositing these in when it is safe to do
so quickly. Hanging a sheet or blanket will help provide a little privacy
as shelter occupants 'take their turn'. The
toilet needs to have its new 'deposits' sealed up tight with the plastic
liner after each use. Use a very secure top on the bucket and position
it near the wall with the outgoing upper air vent.
• Pets, and what to do about them, is a tough call. Letting dogs
run free is not a humane option, both for their potential to die a miserable
death from radiation exposure outside and/or to be a danger to others,
especially if they get diseased and/or run in the inevitable packs of
multitudes of other abandoned pets. Caring for them is ideal, if truly
realistic and not a drain on limited resources, while 'putting them down'
might eventually become a painful, but necessary reality.
• Boiling or bleach water treatments will be used for cleaning your
stored water later for drinking. (This is for killing bacteria, not for
radiation contamination, which is never a concern for any stored and covered
water containers or even sealed food.) Tap water recently put into clean
containers won't likely need to be purified before using. To purify
questionable water, bring it to a roiling boil and keep it there for 10
minutes at least. If you don't have the fuel to boil it, you can kill
the bacteria by mixing in a good quality household bleach at the rate
of 10 drops per gallon, and letting it sit for at least 1/2 an hour. The
bleach should be at least 5.25% pure, like Clorox, but be sure it has
no additives such as soap or fragrance. You can later get rid of the flat
taste from boiling, or some of the chlorine taste when using bleach, by
pouring it from one container to another several times.
• There's much more that can be learned to better understand what
you are up against and to acquire to help your family survive and endure
it. While time permits, and if the Internet is still up & running,
task somebody with getting and printing out additional information.
Print out the plans for the home-makable KFM (Kearny Fallout Meter) that
shows how to build at home, from materials commonly found there, an effective
fallout radiation meter.
Get the free plans for the KFM here...
http://www.ki4u.com/free_book/s60p792.htm
If there is enough time to both order, and be shipped, your own radiation
detection and monitoring instruments, potassium iodide anti-radiation
tablets, Nuclear Survival handbooks, etc., check first for remaining availability
at these links...
http://www.radmeters4u.com/package.htm
http://www.nukalert.com
http://www.ki4u.com/products1.htm
For readily understandable, practical and more detailed information on
nuclear bomb blast, thermal, and radiation effects, EMP, radioactive fallout,
radiation health effects and first-aid, nuclear survivability and myth-busting
facts, along with livestock protection and numerous Do It Yourself fallout
sheltering tips, print out all three parts of this web site below...
http://www.radshelters4u.com
http://www.radshelters4u.com/index2.htm
http://www.radshelters4u.com/index3.htm
If at all possible, also check out this live prep forum, as they will
be covering all the latest crisis news, interpreting the government pronouncements,
and discussing the best practical survival preparations families can still
do...
http://www.timebomb2000.com
• BOTTOM LINE:
When the TV or radio program switches abruptly to an terse announcement
saying: “We Interrupt This Program For This Special Bulletin!”,
and your kids look up to you with questioning wide-eyes and eager for
assurances, know then that you are confidently ready for them with your
own Plan of Action ready to go! That's what this is all about...our children!
This guide was purposely designed with the sober realization that the
overwhelming majority of our fellow Americans would not be compelled to
read such a guide until a nuclear crisis was imminent and, unfortunately,
their preparation options and time to prepare then would be very limited.
www.ki4u.com and other survival equipment suppliers will again be quickly
soldout, as all were after 9/11. This guide then will be the best/only
help that we can offer. If you are fortunate enough to be exploring your
family preparation needs and options before such a future national crisis,
there is much more that you can and should do now to insure that they
are even better prepared. “A prudent man foresees the difficulties
ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers
the consequences.” - Proverbs 22:3
LIST OF SUPPLIES TO ACQUIRE LOCALLY
If stores are still at all stocked, and safe to go to, try to buy
as many of the following items as possible... IMMEDIATELY! There are no
quantities listed here on the food items below as family size varies and
because, as the emergency and panic widens, many items will become quickly
sold-out or quantities restricted and you'll need to try to get more of
what does remain on the shelves. At a minimum you should be looking at
two weeks of provisions, but much better to be aiming for two months or
more. The reality is, if/when we are attacked, it will be a very long
time before anything is ever 'normal' again, especially at any grocery
stores. Hurricane victims can attest to the prolonged misery and disruptions
from even a localized disaster, even with the rest of the country still
able to help out. Nobody can begin to imagine how bad the suffering will
be, and for how long, if nuclear weapons have gone off... and in multiple
locations! The half-dozen top listed and UNDERLINED food items below are
primarily for use while in the shelter. They are mostly ready-to-eat that
requires no cooking or preparation, just a can opener at the most. (The
iodine solution is included here because of its importance for its thyroid-blocking
topical use detailed above, but it's NEVER to be ingested or swallowed.)
The other foods listed below there are better cost/nutrition staples for
later use during the extended recovery period. Then follows general non-food
supplies, tools and equipment. Go Acquire It All Now QUICKLY! It's much
better to risk being a little early when securing your families essential
food and supplies, rather than a few hours
too late...
Canned goods (pasta, soups, chili, vegetables, fruit, tuna, meats, lots
of peanut butter, etc.)
Ready-to-eat foods (pop-tarts, raisins, cheese, granola/energy/protein
bars, snack-paks, etc.)
Some perishable foods (breads and fruits like bananas, apples, oranges,
grapes, etc.)
Assorted drink mix flavorings (with no cold drinks, just plain water,
kids will appreciate it!)
Plenty of potent Multi-Vitamins, Vit C, etc.
Iodine solution, like Betadine (16 ounces)- NOT TO BE INGESTED OR SWALLOWED!
Multiple big boxes of dried milk (Could include/use some inside shelter,
too.)
Multiple big boxes of pancake and biscuit mix & syrup
Largest bags of rice
Largest bags of beans
Largest bags of flour
Largest bags of potatoes
Largest bags quick oats and other grains
Largest bags of macaroni
Large bag of sugar
Large jar of honey
Large 2 gallons or more of cooking oil
Baking powder & baking soda & spice assortment pack
Bottled water (especially if home supplies not secured yet)
Paper or plastic plates/bowls/cups/utensils
Quality manual can opener, 2 if you don't already have one at home
Kitchen matches and disposable lighters
New garbage cans and lots of liner bags (water storage & waste storage)
5 gallon bucket and smaller garbage bags sized for it (toilet)
Toilet seat for the bucket (or use one from inside the house)
Toilet paper and, if needed, sanitary napkins, diapers
Baby wipes (saves water for personal hygiene use)
Flashlights (ideally LED) and more than one portable radio
Plenty more batteries, at least three sets, for each of the above
Bleach (5.25%, without fragrance or soap additives)
Alcohol and Hydrogen Peroxide
Aspirin/Tylenol/Motrin, Pepto Bismol, etc.
Prescription drugs filled, and as much extra as possible
First aid kits
Fire extinguishers
Plenty of dust mask filter protectors
Cheap plastic hooded rain ponchos for everyone
Water filters and all other camping type supplies, such as Coleman cook
stove and fuel, ammo, etc., if any sporting goods stocks still available.
And, of course, rolls of plastic sheeting, duct tape, staple guns, staples,
etc.
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Last Update: 4/4/2006