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Aprilfools
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Joined: 10 August 2007
Location: West Auckland
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Posted: 17 October 2007 at 12:37pm |
We have an emergency kit also. Some big plastic bins with lots of tinned foods, pasta and rice, heaps of water, some tablets to put in the water to help keep them sanitary, loo paper, sanitary pads, rubbish bags, torches, batteries, candles, matches, nurofen and first aid kit, blow up pillows, rain coats. All sorts of stuff. We've also got all our camping equipment which we always keep with it. We could survive for a month we reckon.
Personally I think it's wise to have one. You just never know.
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nuttymama
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Joined: 01 January 1900
Location: christchurch
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Posted: 17 October 2007 at 1:42pm |
I think we will definitely start working on one, my mother was dismayed when she heard we didn't have one. But with three kids we would be screwed, if something did happen. We are in town but I guess you can't always guarantee you will be able to get out or that there would be anything left in the stores. New Orleans springs to mind when I think about what could happen. OK it's worse case scenario but they were so unprepared I couldn't imagine my kids having to go without water for 48 hours.
And there's lots of ideas and things I hadn't thought to put in there so thanks heaps.
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fattartsrock
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Posted: 17 October 2007 at 1:50pm |
Well, I don't have a kit as such, but have a huge canned and dried food supply in the pantry and some of those big clear boxes for storage to biff them in, freezer is always chocka block (so I would be giving it all away before it went off, lol) torch is next to the fridge, as is a huge bin of paracetamol, plasters etc, as well as candles and matches all in the one place. Our papers are all in a concentina file, but our passports and birth certs are in a plastic bag in case we needed to grab and go, and as for cash money we always have the work float here, so we could use that in case of emergency. I also always have 2 or 3 l of bottled water in the fridge (to drink) so I guess that counts as well. In my car, I have a proper first aid kit from the chemist, blanket, towel, loo papaer, wipes, nappies and half of my cd collection...
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fattartsrock
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Posted: 17 October 2007 at 1:52pm |
oooh and we have a portable gas bbq as well as the large one with the rotissere on the porch..(for when the neighbours come over and we are cooking the contents of the freezer up after the big one)
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