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<blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 230820" data-attributes="member: 412"><p>That's fine, until the electrical boxes in the basement short out and start the 3 floors below you on fire like what happened in downtown Grand Forks in '97.</p><p></p><p>Grand Forks flood of '97 was an astronomically cheap (for me) and exceptionally valuable life lesson. I was in my 4th year of college, I had 2 roommates in a 3 bedroom house. I packed up my guns, fishing rods and enough clothes for 2 weeks and drove to Bismarck and moved back in with my parents for a week until the general public was allowed back into Forks. I literally lost nothing, heck, work even paid me my avg weekly salary even though they had no obligation to do so and I didn't have any paid vacation as a part-time worker at the time. A few things off the top of my head that I learned:</p><p></p><p>1. Short of having your own well, it's nearly impossible to have enough CLEAN water to function for very long.</p><p></p><p>2. It's also very difficult to have enough fresh/stable gasoline on hand to keep a gasoline powered generator going for very long.</p><p></p><p>3. When electricity goes out, nobody accepts checks or credit cards for payment, you'd better have some cash. A buddy who owned an "essential business" ended up driving over 100Mi round trip just to find an ATM that still had cash.</p><p></p><p>4. For relatively healthy adults, food isn't all that big of a deal. Short of food allergies, a person can cook a lot of food on a gas or charcoal grill, and, most people can get by on an awful lot less than they eat every day anyway. You don't make it very long at all though without clean water.</p><p></p><p>5. Let's say that you have water, food, shelter, and even a generator figured out for at least 1mo with no mistakes. You're still in the middle of a natural disaster with virtually no emergency services. Do you have enough of any medication you routinely take? What are you going to do if lightning or a sparking transformer light some fuel/oil floating on flood-water and your house with all of your supplies catches fire? </p><p></p><p>6. Have you positively protected yourself from sewer backup?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SDMF, post: 230820, member: 412"] That's fine, until the electrical boxes in the basement short out and start the 3 floors below you on fire like what happened in downtown Grand Forks in '97. Grand Forks flood of '97 was an astronomically cheap (for me) and exceptionally valuable life lesson. I was in my 4th year of college, I had 2 roommates in a 3 bedroom house. I packed up my guns, fishing rods and enough clothes for 2 weeks and drove to Bismarck and moved back in with my parents for a week until the general public was allowed back into Forks. I literally lost nothing, heck, work even paid me my avg weekly salary even though they had no obligation to do so and I didn't have any paid vacation as a part-time worker at the time. A few things off the top of my head that I learned: 1. Short of having your own well, it's nearly impossible to have enough CLEAN water to function for very long. 2. It's also very difficult to have enough fresh/stable gasoline on hand to keep a gasoline powered generator going for very long. 3. When electricity goes out, nobody accepts checks or credit cards for payment, you'd better have some cash. A buddy who owned an "essential business" ended up driving over 100Mi round trip just to find an ATM that still had cash. 4. For relatively healthy adults, food isn't all that big of a deal. Short of food allergies, a person can cook a lot of food on a gas or charcoal grill, and, most people can get by on an awful lot less than they eat every day anyway. You don't make it very long at all though without clean water. 5. Let's say that you have water, food, shelter, and even a generator figured out for at least 1mo with no mistakes. You're still in the middle of a natural disaster with virtually no emergency services. Do you have enough of any medication you routinely take? What are you going to do if lightning or a sparking transformer light some fuel/oil floating on flood-water and your house with all of your supplies catches fire? 6. Have you positively protected yourself from sewer backup? [/QUOTE]
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