Hurricane preparations
 

What does one need? I've already gotten:
Batteries
Food & Water (for humans and kitties)
Car tanked up
Beer



What else??

charcoal or gas for cooking, hot dogs and hamburger meat, buns, ketchup, mustard, lettuce, tomato, onion

ice for drinks

duct tape for repairs (get the tough kind)

slim jims for food if the cooking part gets too damp

Somewhere to pee?

note to all y'all

DO NOT USE CHARCOAL OR GAS FOR COOKING (OR HEATING) INDOORS.

get wet if you must, go hungry if you must. Don't fire that stuff up inside.

/PSA

Yes, you cook during the eye.

found this site - might be handy to someone.

grocery stores won't be crazy at all tonight. Nope. Not at all.

ftfy

It's going to be windy. I'm going to bring my lawn chairs inside. Maybe the garbage cans too, although they are in a little nook and don't have much room to blow around.

Also going to clean the leaves out of the drain by the basement door. That will help keep the basement flooding to a minimum. Our pantry is pretty full, and we can always cook stuff on the gas stove top. The power will almost certainly be out for several hours at a minimum. Hopefully not days.

We trimmed the dead limbs out of our huge oak tree a couple years ago, and it's still in pretty good shape. That's the only thing I'm really worried about.

I just got back from a 2 hour trip to the store for "a few things" ...
OMFG - I got the last two cases of water - they were sold out of water SOLD OUT! WTF? Took friggin forever as every blue hair and mother with screaming children were there as well.

The only person who died during Cyclone Yasi died of asphyxiation caused by running a generator indoors.

Please don't do this. The irony must wear off pretty quickly.


ETA:
Toilet paper.
Ammunition.

And a gun, unless you plan on making one out of toilet paper.

Kill yourselves......... Safe the tax dollars.. :lol2:

Thanks Zen & Clod ...
Looks like I'm all covered then. This thing may actually hit right frikkin here.

Oh, and Merc ... bite me.

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