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Help Prepare Your Family For
A Hurricane, Ice Storm, Flood... |
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Enough doom and gloom
We humans are wonderfully resilient and inventive and we will not be kept down for long! But it may take some time until, together, we get things up and running again. To get as many people as possible through the potentially difficult times is the purpose of my researching and writing this brochure.
ONCE A BOY SCOUT, ALWAYS A BOY SCOUT... I'm a great believer in "Being Prepared", especially when the cost and inconvenience is minimal.
Suggestions on how to survive in a city without electric power
I gleaned the following information from a variety of sources, including survivors of the Ice Storm of '98. Double-check my suggestions with professionals in their respective fields. They reflect years of slow-growing common sense, and are what I believe to be sound as of February, 1999, but I am not an authority nor expert on anything! You may have better ideas and if so, please write to me (900 Don Mills Road, Toronto, Ontario M3C 1V6 Canada; alextilley@tilley.com) so that I can improve upon these suggestions. (We'll keep a current version on our web site: www.tilley.com.)
You and your family need some safe way to warm part of your house or apartment; you need food, and especially drinking water. Without heat, a home or apartment will lose about 1ºC (2ºF) per hour. Remember how cold it is in a detached car garage? Picture the garage nicely painted, with windows, rugs on the floor, paintings on the wall, and furnished. It's still miserably cold and that's about how cold your home will become without electricity or alternate heat. By the way, it is also possible to survive in that kind of cold. It depends on your clothing, preparedness, knowledge, ingenuity - and attitude.
If you can (and you can), drive South in early December 1999. Book early! Or consider whether you can live with a well-equipped-for-survival farm family for a while, especially one that would welcome your help milking cows, etc. If only you had friends among the old-order Amish, who don't ever use electricity -but who make great desserts!
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