What could happen in New York City?
For the next few weeks I want to look at hazards that can affect New York City. I had no idea that there were so many. I guess since they don’t happen often or even all at once they don’t come to mind unless they’re happening.
Come to find out our city is subject to: building collapse, carbon monoxide, coastal storms/hurricanes, disease outbreaks, earthquakes (OMG), extreme heat, flooding, radiation, severe weather, winter weather and utility disruptions oh my. You see the full rundown at the city’s Office of Emergency Management website.
I’m overwhelmed just looking at the list. For now I’m going to be doing basic storm prep.
During the month of November I’ll also be working on my food storage. I’ve been doing some reading up about how and what to store. My family has always stored the basics. My brother-in-law was visiting last week, he passed by the kitchen as I filled up the sugar bowl from my stored sugar. He was stunned that we had that much sugar.
I didn’t think anything of it until I saw his reaction. I thought everybody had 20 pounds of sugar and 20 pounds of rice tucked away in their cupboards. I did an informal inventory and we have at least three weeks worth of food just with the basic storage we ordinarily do. I’d like to get us up to a month’s worth.
Last Saturday, it poured all day it was great to be able to stay in and bake some bread and throw on a pot of soup out of what we already had in the cupboard. When I went to work Monday most people were talking about how they were out in the storm going to the grocery store or Costco.
This month I’ll be working on making spaces to store enough food to get us up to that month. I’ll be posting about that on Thursday’s except Thanksgiving day.
