OK let's assume the worst with this hurricane

[malaise]

What will those of you who are without power going to eat for weeks. What if you have no water.

Clean out the fridge now - throw away old food. Turn up the fridge and make everything freeze deeper.

Remember you can still buy eggs and place them in pan/pots/buckets of salt - they will never spoil.
Likewise salt fish is a great option. Potatoes do not spoil easily and neither does pasta. Buy lots of peas, hamburger rolls, crackers, etc. Buy avocados and cucumbers - green and nearly ripe; buy green french limes (they'll last a week) . And don't forget to buy coal, matches and kerosene.

Here is my favorite recipe for all people who hate hurricane canned foot.
Salt fish balls.

Either soak the salt fish for about three hours or boil it for an hour. You can also serve it overnight.
Boil potatoes. Flake salt fish very fine, crush potatoes. Chop an onion, add pepper and any other seasoning you like. Add an egg. Make tablespoon balls or flatten hamburger size. Dust in flour or breadcrumbs (remember you can crush bread in your hands and have breadcrumbs) Grill or fry on a coal stove, small BBQ,or small gas stove.
You can serve the saltfish patties in hamburger buns with a slice of avocados and cucumbers with onions and lime - great with beer. Or you can serve the balls with crackers, pasta, whatever.

Others tips.
Remember to soak peas overnight. Kidney beans or black eyed peas are great when cooked in coconut milk (buy the packet dried milk). You can add some canned corned beef and serve with rice (with cucumbers and avocados).

Split peas soup is great hurricane food - add potatoes - if you must have some meat in it - add tinned corned beef when it's almost finished. Otherwise that packaged Swanson chicken broth is great. Add dumplings if you like them and canned corn.

Take out your card games, scrabble, etc for dark nights.
Remember you can let yourselves get depressed or you can make the most of it.
If you're staying home and worry about electricity, start making ice from now everywhere you can. When the power goes and your freezer starts to cool wrap ice in plastic and then newspaper and place it in igloos. Remember to surround ice with beer and white win. Put your butter, cheese, yughurt etc in plastic containers and throw them in the igloo when the fridge starts getting hot.

Set the ice in big pots - then set more. Fill bags of ice from the fridge and put them in the freezer.
Mostly try and have fun.

Oh if you need to bathe remember where the fountains are - bathsuits work in public places :rofl:
Take your hose with you and shampoo and soap - you'd be surprised where you find bathing water.
We bathed at the Bob Marley statue for two weeks after Gilbert.

[MercutioATC]

1. Maybe we should have an Emergency Preparedness forum here at DU...

Has anybody looked into that?

:eyes:

[Bluebear]

2. What a great idea! Let's propose it!

:eyes:

[fed_up_mother]

3. And remember to fill every container with water

You'll need water for drinking and cooking, cleaning, and flushing the toilet!

[malaise]

12. Remember you can fill containers during a storm as well

and when the storm is finished and you're washing away water - remember that water works in the toilets.

Buy Dettol, bleach, etc.

[sammytko]

4. I keep a supply of MREs on hand

We have a generator and water.

We are south of San Antonio, and we were supposed to get 100MPH winds.

[Justyce]

8. We're in SE Texas, near Port Arthur. They waited so long to call for our evacuation

that I don't know if we'll even be able to leave now. The traffic is going to be at a standstill. :scared:

[Xipe Totec]

5. The storm

For locals, any reference to "the storm" is obvious. If someone says a house survived the storm, there is no doubt it predates Sept. 8, 1900.

If people say they had family who died or survived the storm, there is no doubt that they are referring to a family history that goes back more than 100 years.

For in Galveston, "the storm" always refers to the hurricane that tore across Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900, and left the city in ruins.

Those who managed, either by sheer luck or the grace of God, to survive the storm faced the challenge of moving forward.

http://www.1900storm.com/

let's NOT assume the worst with this hurricane.

[MilesColtrane]

6. If you have enough ammunition, you don't need to stock up on anything else.

(That's a joke BTW.)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. I have a crank radio in case of emergencies and have used in the last big blackout a great

battery operated led lantern for table light.

[demnan]

9. Make extra ice

Now is the time to make extra ice. This will allow you to keep your food cold for a couple of days if that is all the time the power is off. Also good to have for hurricane parties (stock up on bottled water too if your place is small and you can't store buckets of it).

Also tuna, transistor radios, plenty of batteries, tuna, more tuna and cards.

Charge your camera battery in case you need to take pictures of storm damage for insurance purposes.

[malaise]

11. There'a a new thingy you can buy which allows you to use your vehicle cigarette lighter

port to charge everything. I have one for our phones and the coffee, but a friend in Miami says hers works for everything - camera, phone, coffee, etc.

Hurricane parties are the best. I have one of those King radio, lamp, TV, combos which works well with batteries and the car.

[WeDidIt]

10. MREs

They work great.

[Fireweed247]

13. Great thread...very helpful...

But I don't care what you say...I am NOT eating "canned foot" :rofl:

[malaise]

14. I don't eat canned food either

but salt fish works. :D

[malaise]

15. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I just saw that error - too late to correct. canned food. :rofl:

[Kip Humphrey]

16. Don't forget the all important hurricane drinking game...

We usually make up a special drink for each occasion. Last time, it was a "Hurricane 'Rita" (margarita made with rum). This time, for hurricane Yikes, its "Iked Tea" made with Mike's Hard Lemonade, green tea, mint, and...

We'll be sitting in our hurricane-proof hotel (Mayor White's "Hurricane Hilton", downtown Houston) watching the storm and downing Iked Teas every time a power transformer explodes.

Cheers and be safe.

[libnnc]

17. kick

:kick:

Important info in this thread.