Hurricane Advice

[Ursuline Chick]

Water filled garbage cans in the bathroom can also be used as water to flush toilets. And hurricanes are a "if it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down" situation, you really don't want to waste water.

 

[aart]

No hurricanes here but frequent enough power outages have taught me that filling the tank to flush as 'normal' instead of purging the bowl is much more effective.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

No hurricanes here but frequent enough power outages have taught me that filling the tank to flush as 'normal' instead of purging the bowl is much more effective.

Makes sense, glad you added that, it's all so important to know before hand. Thanks aart

 

[rjohns39]

Also, don't deprive yourself of those things that help you feel human. We lost power for more than a week during one of our freak snow storms in VA (the world of electric homes). I'll never forget my neighbor's response when she came out one morning and smelled coffee cooking on my grill. I think at that moment, if given the choice between a cup of coffee and a bar of gold, she would have gone for the coffee.

I've spent a lot of time camping in my youth, and been trained in survival by the military so I look at being prepared a bit differently. Yet, what I've found most often is simple works and works well. I love reading "how to" books written in the 17th and 18th centuries. Most often, there's a simple solution to the challenge faced in a major weather event. For example: During the same snow storm, many of my neighbors lost everything in their fridge and freezer. I pulled some plastic bins out of my car port, buried them in the snow and emptied by freezers into them. I set my stuff out of the fridge in a cooler on the deck. Nothing thawed or spoiled.

Be safe and our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by Harvey and Irma.

 

[Flashpoint]

.... For example: During the same snow storm, many of my neighbors lost everything in their fridge and freezer. I pulled some plastic bins out of my car port, buried them in the snow and emptied by freezers into them. I set my stuff out of the fridge in a cooler on the deck. Nothing thawed or spoiledl.

Absolutely - sometimes snow and ice can be your best friend!

 

[theuglyduckling]

Try to make sure everyone gets a bath first - at least start out clean. We do that even with the big thunderstorms - that we get warnings on. Warnings do not always happen.

i plan to take one after i give my fiance a hair cut. he says he wants to be bald so that if the lights go out he wont look like a caveman by the time they come back on. plus i have been outside this whole day taking the coop down, collecting anything sitting in the yard, collecting bottles and gallons and ice chest and so on, and a bunch of other stuff.

Noaa's cone has Puerto Rico in it's sites for Wed morning. Stay safe, prepare as much as you can.

i hope theyre wrong. my governor says not till around 12 or later.

Water filled garbage cans in the bathroom can also be used as water to flush toilets. And hurricanes are a "if it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down" situation, you really don't want to waste water.

lol i dont plan to flush even if its brown. at least not until its literally to where you cant use it.

Fill your bathtub as well.

i wish i had one! lol

one of the graphs for tropical storm force wind speed probabilities has my city in purple. lets hope thats wrong! http://weatherpr.com/

also i plan on going shopping tonight for food and water before everyone else floods walmart. any ideas besides canned meat, beans, rice, and chef boyardee?

 

[Folly's place]

Food bars! Marshmallows! Chocolate, and dried fruit. Bananas, apples, and cheese. And best wishes from Michigan. Mary

 

[User395221]

any ideas besides canned meat, beans, rice, and chef boyardee?

I'd get powdered milk and oats/cereal. If you don't have power, a bowl of cereal is a decent-enough feed (for me, at least). And muesli bars. Cheese and biscuits (do you get La Vache qui rit or mini babybel over there? You don't need to keep them in the fridge.)

Good luck, I hope it does a big swerve and goes somewhere else without people.

 

[Kiki]

i plan to take one after i give my fiance a hair cut. he says he wants to be bald so that if the lights go out he wont look like a caveman by the time they come back on. plus i have been outside this whole day taking the coop down, collecting anything sitting in the yard, collecting bottles and gallons and ice chest and so on, and a bunch of other stuff.


i hope theyre wrong. my governor says not till around 12 or later.

lol i dont plan to flush even if its brown. at least not until its literally to where you cant use it.


i wish i had one! lol

one of the graphs for tropical storm force wind speed probabilities has my city in purple. lets hope thats wrong! http://weatherpr.com/

also i plan on going shopping tonight for food and water before everyone else floods walmart. any ideas besides canned meat, beans, rice, and chef boyardee?

You are going to be lucky to find anything left!
Breads.....?
Look for stuff that you normally eat.

 

[jeria]

one of the graphs for tropical storm force wind speed probabilities has my city in purple. lets hope thats wrong! http://weatherpr.com/

also i plan on going shopping tonight for food and water before everyone else floods walmart. any ideas besides canned meat, beans, rice, and chef boyardee?[/QUOTE]

I so wish you well through this. Please report back in when you can when it is over. It sounds like it will be a very frightening and dangerous storm. I hope you are on high ground as the storm surge is predicted to be high in some areas. Good luck at the store, Films of some stores in Tampa show almost empty shelves. Get things that don't need electricity. If you have a gas grill make sure your propane tank is full--you can cook on it. A week of no power after a Cat 1 in Florida and 9 people to keep fed, I now make sure I have mine full for predicted ice storms.