Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: RedCOMET
Well, I went shopping for some extra supplies in Opelousas, LA where i'm crashing at the GF's place. Opelousas is about 20 north of Lafayette, on I-49. Walgreens was closed up here, and CVS was getting close to closing. SO we stocked up on more water, 2 more bottles of wine, some soda, chocalate bars ( for the wine of course). I was also able to go to the ATM and get about $400 in cash and Daquari's
In other news, in running those errands, contra flow sectin of I-49 there was a low volume of vehicles... but his was near exit 18. It was mooving quite steadily, but there were not alot of vehicles heading north. I guess its worst in other part of LA.
Heh, I don't drink, but I told my friend that if we get stranded here for days, I'm going to get hammered.
I just got done taking pictures of all of my belongings and my insurance policies. I'm doing laundry and filling up old Gatorade bottles as "cold sinks" for the freezer/fridge. I also cleaned up the yard.
Do you guys think I should go get all of the garden stones like
these and put them up?
Stones will be fine since they have weight and are flat on the ground pretty much. But anything sticking up a bit from the ground or light weight put away.
I live in FL and been through quite a few hurricanes, I didn't read any of your previous posts so forgive me if I say stuff you already did. But here are some suggestions.
Hopefully you have enough food, stuff that doesn't need to be cooked. If you want to do some cooking, if you have a grill make sure it is secured somewhere and have plenty of charcoal/propane for it.
Clean out your tub really well, scrub it down. Then Before the hurricane is going to hit fill the tub up with water. Serves two purposes, one if you don't have enough containers for drinking water and two, you need to fill your toilet up some to flush.
Hopefully you have/are boarding up the windows, if not at least do it for one room to offer a bit more protection. If you have UPS for your PC's make sure they are fully charged and unplug and turn them off. They are great for when you need some power for something.
Batteries and candles are your friends.
For bottles of water, put them in the freezer, if you have a lot freeze them and use a cooler that you have for the beach or whatever else and put them in there with all the ice that will fit inside of it. Not having power after all that rain and the sun beating down having something cold for a couple of days afterwards is worth its weight in gold in those situations.
Go to the atm and with draw however much cash you want. Little to no power and crap down all over cash is all people will use.
Have stuff ready for after the storm, tarps, duct tape, garbage bags, etc to clean up and try and patch up things the best you can. Even if you don't think you'll need it you probably will or at the very least you can help your neighbor out.
Neighbors, even if you don't get along with them now, there is nothing like a natural disaster that brings people together that are in the thick of it. Help each other and share with one another. If your going to grill some dinner, ask them if they would like to use the grill so you guys don't use as much fuel as you would if you did it seperately. Gotta conserve your supplies. Also helps having someone else help you fix up problems your having at your place and you help them.
A lot of this seems like very common knowledge but you would be surprised how often people just don't think of it cause they freak out before the storm.
Oh yeah, one more thing, things of value besides papers/pictures. Keep them off the floor and clear out a secure spot in a closet or somewhere for them and cover them with plastic just incase. My friend saved his computers and various things doing this. Half his roof was torn off in a hurricane and since his stuff was like 2 feet of the ground and covered in plasticed and sealed closed with duct tape in a closet all his stuff was fine.