This earthquake stuff

No, nothing here, mostly becasue of living in Aklnd I think. Our main issue would be a volcano, and all you can do with that is hunker down inside till it stops. Or it would be so massive that we would all die Mt Vesuvius style and be none the wiser.

We're in the process of putting one together, but because we're keen trampers, we always had most of the componants in our 'tramping cupboard' anyway (torches, batteries, first aid, etc). I always keep bottles of water as well, just in case.

We're in Hamilton, so we don't even get a volcano to worry about I'm not sure what kind of disaster we're ever likely to face, but I figure an emergency kit isn't a big deal to have, just in case.

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We don't have one. It's one of those "I should do that one of these days" things

DH scoffs whenever I talk about it. I have, however, made a little emergency kit for Hannah.
A few days supply of nappies, food, water, clothes, blanket etc..
But for some reason DH just thinks it's silly to have one "just sitting there, doing nothing" for us.
Maybe I should just do it.
You never know, I guess.

MamaPickle wrote: We don't have one. It's one of those "I should do that one of these days" things

 

Same here.  DH is always going on about though so I guess I better put something together.  We used to have a weeks supply of water (enough for washing, cooking and drinking) but when we moved we tipped it all out and we've been meaning to start again from scratch ever since (we moved on 16/11/2006).

We do have plans in place and have done for a long time.  The most important thing for us is to get the family back together if a disaster strike.  DH and I both work in town but we work different hours (with a 2hour overlap) so chances are one of us will be stuck in town (about a days walk from home).  We also both work on the waterfront so we have plans to head for the hills (incase of a Tsunami) and then make our way home from there.  The thing that freaks me out the most is that a disaster might strike when DH and I are both in town and Michaela's at home in the care of my elderly MIL.

Oh and (although I'm an upstanding citizen that's never been in trouble with the law and never intends to be either) if it comes to it I will have no qualms looting (infact I might stop at kathmandu and get myself a nice pair of hiking boots for the trek home just kidding, I have sneakers at work).  But realistically my main focus is to get back to my family and to keep my family safe and well, the stores can claim any lost/damaged/stolen property on their insurance.

I know that where I live I am at a big risk or the mountain blowing and earthquakes. We don't have anything packed up as such but I always have bottles of water in the fridge and we have the staples in the cupboards. But where we live we would have the army to help us (well I would hope so), but with that means that I am by myself with the boys if anything was to happen. I think that if the alert on the mountain was raised I would then probably go and get some more stuff and put it in the garage.

nup. that movie was interestin though. to me, it seemed as if it was entirely WHERE you were that made a differnce, rather than how prepared you were - TBH. We don't have a plan though and we should I think.

We DO have a fire plan though. Jake instigated it (something from daycare)....the boys love to practice climbing through the windows.

Bit put off going to wellington...

Hopes wrote: We're in Hamilton, so we don't even get a volcano to worry about I'm not sure what kind of disaster we're ever likely to face, but I figure an emergency kit isn't a big deal to have, just in case.

Thats like us. Maybe it'll rain so hard that the bridges will all fall down and then flood the city.

We have a first aid kit on the frigde in a clip container its always stocked with plasters bandages and savlon oh and billions of half open packets of panadol. I also have some 3 litre botlles of water in the freezer but thats about it.

What do you do if something like that happened and you run out of clean nappy's???? just let them run around naked.

No we don't have anything per se although we always have tins in the cupboard. One thing they didn't mention thoug was if you are at home to use whats in the freezer/fridge too. we never had anything growing up set aside either. However being prepapred does have its limitations as you may not be able to access it regardless of how prepared you are. No idea what the solution is for that.

I thought the movie was very one sided in regard to Wellington yes a big one is comming but they aren't sure where its going to hit if i remmeber correctly the alpine fault is well overdue and that will affect most of the south island i guess at the end of the day it did give you an idea what could happen if it strikes. I would have liked to have seen more about how the rest of the country fared though.

Dh and me were soooooo excited when we had our first earthquake down in Queenstown, don't get any in England. We don't have an emergency kit but after we nearly got evacuated this year cos of flooding perhaps we should.....hmmmmm will put it on my to do list.

We have a couple of emergency kits - Its just DH and I at the moment so they are pretty basic. I'll probably look at changing them when we have kids.

A small one we keep in the boot of our car: toilet paper, bottled water, torch, a couple of cans of food with the lift up tabs, blanket, and a first aid kit.

And a larger one in our house that contains: change of clothes, first aid kit, bottled water, canned food and dried fruit, lighter, small radio with spare batteries, small portable camping gas cooker with a gas can thing, toilet paper, sleeping bags, tampons (you never know?) and a USB drive that contains scanned copies of our birth certificates, passports, marriage certificate photos and banking details.

Okay it sounds like I'm a freak but when we lived in Melbourne they kept showing these climate change programmes with digital senarios and NZ always got taken out by a major tidal wave. I live in ChCh on the east coast. DH thinks I'm crazy but if we need to use it then its all there ready to grab and go.