July 26, 2006
Be Prepared
Glenn Reynolds links to this Target®/American Red Cross First Aid Emergency Preparedness Starter Kit on Amazon. It's $29.99 (AlexC will get a shiny penny back on his $30) and is probably a decent idea.
If disaster hits Lafayette, Colorado, I don't want to wait for the National Guard to pull up. But at the same time, I don't know what I'll need four ponchos for. I've got flashlights and batteries, bottled water, dog food, and enough ammunition to defend my AA cells.
Professor Reynolds worries more about bird flu than I do but there’s not much around here that could close things down for more than a couple of days. I'm going to chance it.
The Customers who bought the emergency kit, Amazon informs me, also bought: Pop Bottle Science, Crisis Prevention Handbook, Fundamentals Medical Kit, a 1GB Memory stick and "Molto Italiano: 327 Simple Italian Recipes to Cook at Home." You guys laughed when I bought the hand coffee grinder for Y2K! Italian home cooking? One GB memory?