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PS. Honey is good to have on hand. Long shelf life, used for first aid, nutrition and sweetener.

Plenty of dog and cat food, sealed and vacuumed packed. First aid kit, extra meds. Grab and go bags. Vacuumed packed food for my husband and I, enough for six months for two people, shelf life of 25 years. 17 KW stand by generator. Extra diesel fuel and gas with preservatives. Water purification tablets. We live in the country so we have a well. We can hand pump the well if we are totally out of power. Cast iron cooking pots and pans, I can even make bread in cast iron Dutch oven over a camp fire. 40 lbs of all purpose flour, 30 lbs of rice and beans. Large black plastic bags. We live by the beach (salt water). So we can fish. And last but not least, I know how to make beer.

I think preparations for natural disaster depend a lot on where you live. We don't live in earthquake, tornado or cyclone country, there are no major rivers likely to flood us out, so I'm not sure what contingency we'd be preparing for.

Same hear, other than flooding of the rivers and creeks from heavy rain. And the only people who are affected by that are the people stupid enough to buy homes by the rivers and creeks.

I’ll be winging it. I mean, all the articles I read about preparedness assume you’re home when it happens. What if you’re in your car or at work miles and miles away from your home? I do keep an emergency backpack in the car, and there’s always bottled water, canned and packaged food in the house. I keep a charged spare external battery for phones, and some cash. BTW, if you’re at home during an emergency, there’s always the water in the water heater.

While you sit there fat dumb and happy because you don’t live next to a river a creek tornado zone hurricane zone or earthquake zone just remember there are EMP’s. It stands for electro magnetic pulse. You can get those from solar flares which would take out the whole electrical grid since we have one of the worst electrical grids in the world. It would take $5 billion to upgrade our electrical grid. But neither the electrical companies nor Congress is willing to do anything about it. We don’t make large transformers in this country they’re all made overseas and in some places in this country it would take five years to get these large transformers up and running after an EMP. Imagine being without electricity for five years. Also vehicles made after 1974 would be totally in operable after an EMP.

We recently installed an interior drain system in our basement to keep the basement from flooding. We never had a high water table until this past year, when we got so much rain for several months, homes that never flooded began to flood. The yard was squishy to walk on. Not now, of course, now we have excessive heat.

We'll install a whole house generator and a wood stove in our new build, and made sure our lot is not in a tsunami inundation zone. In the winter we travel with warm gear in the car. Do what you can but don't cause yourself unnecessary stress. We've been cut off by highway closures as long as two weeks and life goes on fairly normally. The worst here would be serious structural damage due to an earthquake. But that's what engineering and insurance are for I guess.

With all this excessive heat, can you imagine being without power? Don’t forget our furry friends and elderly neighbors.

We have water both for flushing toilets and drinking. We have a generator and gas. We have dry and canned goods. We have a wood stove for heat with a decent amount of firewood and there's lots of trees around we could cut down. We don't have pets so no need for that kind of stuff. We have charger battery thingy to charge car battery or phones.

Wait, the question is........Have you taken steps to protect your home against natural disasters? Your HOME. I thought that meant the place you live, your house. Sound like a lot of you have taken steps to protect yourself in a natural disaster tho. Which is the most important thing.

Kim, generators and alternative heat sources definitely protect your home. Frozen pipes are no joke!

Box of wine.

I think it's reasonable to do a risk assessment, but not every house is at the same risk level or for the same things. The biggest risk for my previous home was forest fire so we had roof sprinklers and ember-resistant screens. The point of those, though, was less to protect the house and more to give us time to get away.

There was no risk there of pipes freezing or rivers overflowing and flooding the house. Somewhere else, it would make sense to prepare for earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and the like, but protecting life is more important than protecting property and that is always where the emphasis shoud be.

We installed Impact windows and doors this winter, because we live on the intracoastal waterway. It will make preparation for a hurricane much easier (if we have one ) due to our house being elevated because we don’t have to put plywood up THREE stories high anymore.

You guys are right. Family is home. And generators do protect homes. I was just expecting something else when I clicked on this. More like Dee Crock said, instead of food and water preparation stuff. Either way it is good to be prepared!!!!!

Another thing we did was just keep the design simple. We average 25 or 30 feet of snow a year and it's amazing how many people have overly complicated roofs here! We stuck to a single gable so we won't have problems with excessive weight on the roof in case of a big snow event.

Nope - fortunately I live in a condo, so things like protecting the structure are not my concern. I do have a waterproof small safe in case of flood or fire (too small to be helpful regarding theft), and 2 weeks of water. Ice storms or lightening downing power lines/stations are the most likely natural disaster I'm likely to face, at least as far as we know now.

Some of the old conventions concerning houses is concerned with protecting from natural disasters. In the old south folks didn't have grass yards and kept other vegetation and trees away from the house in case of wildfires. It was also a decent method of keeping snakes away from the house as snakes prefer to slither thru vegetation instead of open ground. LOL, of course, that sometimes left the yard in a muddy mess.

We live on an island in a hurricane prone area. Our home is built 9.5' above base flood. It has all impact glass windows, a metal, hip roof with extra straps holding it down, and meets our local code requirements to withstand 180 mph wind.

I don't have the money for such things. and as for things for us, we wouldn't have a place to store the extra stuff.

Plenty of Duct Tape.

I often pose this question on long journeys, although I phrase it as “zombie apocalypse” preparedness as it quashes arguments

This is a typical Emily poll what on earth does the picture of a closet all pretty got to do with being prepared for a disaster

At the time of 9/11, we lived not far from a nuclear power plant, and the near future seemed very uncertain. Our plan, should we be at our separate jobs when disaster might occur, was to identify several rendezvous points several hours' drive upwind (in various directions, depending on the wind direction), and keep the top half of the gas tanks full. Let's hope none of us needs to call on these preparations, but it is sensible to have supplies and a plan.

We are newer residents of SW Florida. In fact, the day after we moved into our home, we had a tropical storm and six weeks later, we had a hurricane make landfall on our island. Just about every home on our island is concrete block with an elevation, so that already is one protection. After the hurricane hit, we had some damage to our home like the roof had to be replaced (we were lucky and had no leaks while we were waiting on repairs) and the screening for our pool cage blew out (it was old and probably needed replacing anyway). But we also were able to get a Small Business Administration loan in order to replace the front door, garage door and windows on the front of our home to hurricane rated and added shutters to all the rest of the windows.

We evacuated for the last hurricane, but depending on the strength of future hurricanes, we might shelter in place. Our home is located in the center of the island, so flooding hasn't occurred in recent years. When we evacuated, we wound up going to near Atlanta with our son to his friends' home because we didn't have any plan in place of where to go. Our son lives in MIami, so he had to evacuate also because the entire southern end of the state wound up leaving. Since then we have checked out different towns to see where we could shelter in place and not have to drive so far.

Things on hand: generator, small window A/C unit, batteries, water, gas cans to be filled, synthetic flood barriers (Quick Dam products), also a kayak and surfboards to paddle out if necessary. Coming next: hurricane fabric to protect the windows. After one hurricane we were without power for nine days so that small window A/C unit saved our lives in this heat.

We live in the Lower Florida Keys. hurricane preparedness is a way of life. we have a metal roof, impact windows and doors, hurricane shutters, a sea wall and the house is on stilts. We have an evacuation plan in place and will drive one vehicle and the RV with the dogs out when the evac order goes out. all important docs are aired together to grab and go. Will leave the boats and one vehicle.

gravel perimeter to respond to threat of grass fire.

No one can protect their home from a natural disaster. There is no way to steer a tornado or wild fire away from one's house. At best, one can attempt to mitigate damage. For the majority of Americans, preparedness is keeping basic necessities on hand, having backup energy supplies, having an evacuation route and rendezvous, and having the means to pay for staying somewhere else if you have to leave home.

A friend had to evacuate her home last summer. In her haste she grabbed nonessential things and forgot important Items like her passport. After hosting her and her husband for a week until they could return home (and listening to them lament daily about yet another thing they left behind) I wrote down a list of vital stuff to grab on my way out the door. Protect yourself and get to safety foremost,.

I was surprised no one mentioned how to stack kitchen items so they dont get destroyed and do damage to other items and walss and floors and people , say during an earthquake.

Or putting heavy items low and lighter items higher up on cabinettes also heavy food items. Putting little railings across cabinettes on the inside so things cant fall out. Especially any chemical bottles

knowing how to turn of your main gas meter and water and electric if nessesary.

How to handle oxygen for people with cpaps or portable tanks.

Take CERT training. It helps to know what to do and not to do and how to help in a disaster, so all your neighbors are safe too.
Get a bathtub water bladder, if you know water may be an issue, fill it.

Peanut butter, like honey can be a good source of not quickly perishable food. Honey is also a good thing to protect wounds from bacteria if you have nothing else.

Propane tanks can be used to cook food or attach a bbq to.