the mentioned kits are pretty expensive ...

any opinions on the red cross one? or the cost of piecing one together?

its kinda funny to see people gets paranoid after an incident happned

its just like the flu and virus season a year ago that all schools and malls and public areas installed hand sanitizers at every entrances and people were using it like no tomorrow. All sanitizer refills were out of stock and back order....

and i barely see anyone using those in the past few months... lol

Just put the idiot on your ignore list. I'm just about to do that myself.

how about IF THEY STILL ARE STANDING? bring a shovel eh? oh, and bring a gun for the hoards of other people thinking of looting too.:fullofwin:

earthquake makes surrey the new whiterock and abbotsford the new surrey :fuuuuu:

I have a can of tuna and a 12 case of bud in the trunk of my car.. does that count as a kit? :D

working at a pharmacy.. i know all too well.. H1N1 was like mask season..

Radiation scare? buy all the lugol solution and potassium iodide i can =_=

Where are you keeping this in the back of your house I'd worry about summer heat and winter frost damage and such.
I'd love to assemble an exhaustive week long kit that takes only annual maintenance of eating the canned food.


Also, does anybody know how long gasoline lasts?
I have 2 50cc scooters that only sip a couple of liters of gasoline a week, I figured they would be good to get around if everything goes to hell and back.

Add some fuel stabilizer.

One thing people forget to put in there kits is money. With a big earthquake Credit cards and debit cards will not be working.

I was thinking about that too the other day Maniac. Most of us don't have cash in the house at all, or if we do it's loose change and that's it. If things did go to shit, we wouldn't be able to buy extra supplies even if we could get to a store.

Why would you need cash after a big earthquake? Everything will either be looted or broken!...

I bet many of us will be trying to loot at the bank :fullofwin:

+1

ya.. we're not in Japan where those ppl are still obeying the law after a massive disaster.


food>>money

Our store will still be open hell or high water.

We are open 365 days a year power no power.

you can have all the stuff you can handle. but it isn't going to help if you can't defend your family and people come steal it all.

Pretty sad that some of you are implying that Lower Mainland residents will act like savages in the event of an emergency...

i think it will depend how hard we get hit

if vancouver looks like haiti or sichuan after, all hell will break loose
if vancouver looks like tokyo after (everything still standing), i think we will be more civilized
we really dunno how we will look like, since there hasnt been a "big" one in modern times

seriously, i dont think its a bad idea to have weapons in your earthquake kit, especially if you own a small business, looters gon' loot

lol are you kidding?

if im alive after that earthquake im going STRAIGHT to the bank to try and raid that vault,

I will also raid and loot my neighbours for their kits, survival of the fittest

LOL I think of all places, the bank vaults would be the sturdiest so I doubt it would be cracked open with some heavy shaking... but then again... that could be a good excuse for us ...

*attempt at robbing the bank, stopped by police*
"But I want to be in the safest place possible so I want to be in the bank vault!"

Yes and you will get shot if you try to raid my home. A lot of us are prepared for people like you.