I the event your city or town was to expierance natural or man made disasters, how prepared are you?

New Orleans, World trade center, Oklahoma city, Earth quakes, Wild fires in California.....ect

 

Oklahoma has seen the Bombing and May 3rd Tornado's. While bad, didn't really slow things down. It would take something HUGE to get most area's around Oklahoma.... A tornado might take out a town, but 2 miles over will be untouched. Floods, areas around lakes and rivers might flood, but high ground is alway's near by. Most of the earth quakes are unfelt. The worst thing to fear is the Economy.

 

Aside from a terrorist attack or maybe an earthquake since they say we're near a bigger, albeit less active fault than San Andreas- not much is foreseeable for us in the dfw that could hold a candle to Katrina...

With the exception of an F-5 tornado, no natural phenomena could put Dallas un "the buck" like that... But an f5 if it went across dfw just-right; could cost billions in damage and lost lives; but still nothing compared to Katrina's devastation; nothing that would be prompted by early warning or an evacuation... If it were a quake; we'd really be screwed with all our elaborate overpasses that would surely crumble & collapse- shutting down interstates, tollways, and trapping/dealaying hundreds of thousands..

Can you imagine trying to evacuate a metro0area with 5,000,000 people an only a few ways out? 35w north, 35w south, 35e north, 35e south, (They reconverge in hillsborough (s) and denton (n) that'd be a mess. I-20 east/west, 75 north, 45 south, 30 east, 287 north/south, 289 north... Nost of us would be killed in our cars trying to escape...

 

BUT is anyone prepared????> was the thread start??. I carry an emergency kit in my truck and flares, blankets,water,mre's (yummy) some koolaid packages along with some other things. At home i have a standby generator with 25 gallons of gas/or propane, MRE's, i have a spring that runs year round so water is not a problem and crank flashlights,radios, TV (what the hell) and some other items like guns and ammo. Hey you just never know. Plus we live in the snowbelt and have been snowed in more than once... I am prepared yes i am...

 

I'm a country boy. Like Hank Jr. says, we can survive.

fortunately I don't see terrorists attacking the amish, so my area if fairly safe.

 

I can take care of myself if the need came about....it is the rest of society that I worry about...

 

i am prepared for anything, i have about 200 rounds for each of my 13 rifles and pistols, around 1 months worth of MREs for my wife and me around 25 gal of fuel, generator, space heaters, night vision goggles, portible shelters, all the camping gear you can imagin, i could hold out just about anywere for about a month with my wife with no outside help or a trip to the store, i feel sorry for anyone that tried to loot me

 

I got the basic stuff, hurricane shutters, big generator, couple dozen MRE’s, etc, etc, nothing elaborate. I pretty much play it by ear

 

We live in a snow belt as well:

Generator, Transfer Switch for whole house Power, Wood Stove with about a months worth of wood, A cold Room and Freezer with about 3 weeks worth of food. 15 Gal of fuel plus whatever I could suck out of the Car and Truck. Lots of camping/cooking/hunting gear, and lots of wildlife around the house so getting more food would not be a problem

2 Sump pumps in the basement, lots of flashlights, propane, more stuff stashed away that I'll probably remember if I need it enough.

dpostman

 

Not prepared at all. There is rarely a natural disaster in Colorado and I dont think we're that high on the terrorist nuke-list. I do have homeowners insurance.

 

Up here in Minnesota, there isn't much other than a tornado that I'd worry about, and there's not much you can do if one hits your home.

I do have a nuke plant about 10 miles away, and if that ever goes, I'm up ***** creek anyway, because our wonderful Gov't says you can't sue them for more than $2500 (or is it $25,000). About the only thing to do is skedaddle anyways and take along what little you can because no one is going back for several thousand years.

Blizzards? Been thru the worst and not much to fear there.

One thing for sure, in NO WAY do I depend on or expect the gov't to help me out. They are too F'd up. I have guns, plenty of ammunition and if I had time, I'd stock up on the primary trade goods for the post-appacalypse: Liquor; tobacco products; coffee, ammo; medicines.

 

To stay in our home for days: (YES) Well, between my deep freezer, my fridge and my pantry- we have enough food & water for several days. Should some unforeseen event cripple life as we know it in the Metroplex... (Just say our area was sparred the shockwave from a meteor hit for instance...)

If we have to evacuate DFW (YES): I have family to the east of us, and family to the south. I have a practically new house that I'd have to kick my tenants out of in Killeen- but yes I do have two houses; so even if I had to wait them out of their lease- eventuually I'd have another roof over my head. My wife has family still in California and in Detroit so we have a place to go.

If we were to lose all city services (Light, gas, sewage, etc) and we can't leave the city (NO: We can hold out for a few days on canned food, etc... after that we're @$$-out)

I took a financial class and on thing that the lady taught me that I always try to do- is have $1,000 that I can always get my hands on in the event of an emergency. I have that.

Were we in the snow belt, I'd probably have all of that too (Generators, MRE's, etc..). We get ice & snow here in Dallas, but not enough to cripple the city or take out our power, gas, etc... In my area, even our electrical lines are under ground- so not much in the way of weather can cripple us here- with the exception of a tornado... But, all you can do then is pray it doesn't hit your area- or drop any debris on you. We have no basements- so we can't run, or hide....

 

I have stayed through a few hurricanes down here. I have most of the things I need for us to last a couple of days. I don't have a generator but you don't need it to live. I have a 3 and 13 year old and live about 30 miles for NO. When a storm gets that big with young kids involved the only thing I can suggest is get the hell out of it's ways. I'll stay up to a cat.3 after that I'm out of here if they project a direct path to my area. I stayed in my house for this one but my family had to go. If katrinia would not have turned and hit NO head on I would have picked them up on my way out of the state.