Emergency kits, how prepared are U??

We don't have anything "officially" prepared. Water is easy.. hot water cylinder if you have the type that can be drained.. it makes plenty of drinkable water

We too have a gas BBQ. We have plenty of canned food all the time. We have 3 torches.. I think thats cause we thought we had lost one so bought another etc lol.. we have candles too.

The CD get thru website has a helpful checklist

Perhaps I should put a kit together for keeping in the car as well, will add that to the to do list!!!

I figure for us living in a small town where everything is easy walking distance and hubby's work is about 10 mins walk away, as long as we weren't out of town when something happened, we would be ok to meet up and get home.

Also we are really high here so not likely to flood, a long way from the sea so no tsunamis. Worst we are likely to get is an earthquake (we have had a few big ones here as we are on the fault line) or a massive storm where we are cut off.

We haven't got a kit together but we have a good first aid kit, tons of canned food, gas bbq, candles(scented ones!) and frozen water(I use it in the summer water my rabbits are hot!). We have talked about where we would meet if we weren't together, who would get chloe from kindy, the nearest CD point. But to be honest we only talked about because I had a horrible dream that there was a massive earthquake
For most of the people I know getting ready for an emergency is on their to do but that's about as far as it goes.

Fleury - where in bulls did you live?

I have everything in the house but not all in the same place, I should put it together - a job for next year.

We have candles, about 5 torches and lanterns (we go camping a lot), purification tabs for water (if all else fails with finding water elsewhere), freezer packs and our cooler bag (just to keep meat not stinking for too long - prob won't be worried about it anyway, but good to have it available). Always have enough gas in the gas bottle as well as small canisters to hook into our little gas burner. Heaps of rice, pasta, canned stuff, cereal (you can survive a long time on cereal!) and then there's the wonderful army ration packs that contain muesli with milk powder (just add water!) yay!

It's a good idea to get some longlife milk too if you've got kids, just to supplement their diet over the 3 days, and keep fluids up. We've also got a kickass first aid kit (again, army issue) with everything you need to perform minor surgery if need be haha (that's DH's job, I don't do needles).

Just remember, if you take a kit in your car and you have cans, TAKE A CAN OPENER! They're not THAT easy to get into without one

Stuff to look forward to then Emma . Something I am going to buy (once they come out), is the s26 formula already made in the treta(sp?) box so that I will have that for Josh.

kebakat wrote: Fleury - where in bulls did you live?

In a airforce house, and I couldn't get to work in Palmy as road was flooded at Awahuri, Feilding was flooded, road north to Wanganui was flooded, and so was parts of Marton.
Bulls water treatment plant was washed away, so we didn't have running water for 36 hours, and not drinkable for a week.
We weren't badly effected at all, but was amazing how unprepared we were.