There was a lot of press coverage of the public preparation for Super Storm Sandy, and it made me think of what kind of different preparations I would have to make here in Arizona for a disaster scenario:
* Water would have to be a major priority - and we have six 55 gallon drums filled and waiting.
* Our electricity goes out fairly often, so I already keep the refrigerator pretty full at all times to help it maintain the cold when the power is off (it just never looks this nice). We almost always have a pretty steady breeze, living so close to the mountains, so even in the summer, the A/C being off isn't that big a deal.
* Our food storage is very helter-skelter; huge bags of rice, odd can's of fruit and tuna as well as ancient boxes of Hamburger Helper - and not even remotely as organized as this photo. You might be able to survive on all of it - but the question really is, would you want to?
* If all the transportation fails, I have three horses that are VERY loosely called "ride-able", so we could fall back on that.
* One of the goats technically will be providing milk soon, when her babies are born - but I'd feel like a thief literally stealing from the kids!
But so far we've only had the fall-out (literally) of a couple of hurricanes and tropical storms - a big wild-fire that got to a couple of miles from our home -- flooding a few times. Let's keep our fingers crossed, okay?
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