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Hi All,

I'm going to be moving soon from an outbuilding on a family property with plenty of space, gardens, and a clean creek into renting a 3-storey condo- style townhome in a small city 30mins away. There is no yard space, though I do have a small balcony.

What are some of the key preps that you all have or would recommend for a place like this? I have a number of things at my current house that I'll bring - mainly 1+week of food/water stores, but you never know what you don't know, so I'd appreciate input from anyone with other thoughts or ideas of things I should get.

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[โ€“] jbdigriz@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I lived in a similar situation in Houston suburbs for a few years. The main thing to prep for there was hurricanes. You'd potentially not have electricity for a few weeks, and possibly not clean water (not that the water was ever good there), so that's what I prepared for.

Take a look at what the most likely disasters are in your area. Power out during cold? Heat? Water has a boil order? Forest fires? And prep for that. For example, forest fires you need masks and a good filter system, possibly a way to seal your windows more securely.

When you say you have food for a week, make sure that is food that you can either prepare without electricity, or that you have a safe alternative method of cooking, and that you have sufficient fuel.

And the best thing I can advise is to dry run it. Assume your biggest local risk is power outage. Try 24 hours simulated without power. You don't have to turn off the main breaker and ruin everything in your fridge...just turn off EVERYTHING you can, and don't use electric. You cannot charge your phone, you cannot run the air/heat, you cannot run a fan, you cannot do laundry, you cannot turn on lights, you have no hot water, put some painter's tape on the fridge so you don't open it (what I'd do during a short blackout to try to save things as long as possible), you cannot use the coffee maker or microwave, etc., and see what happens. You'll find out very, very quickly some of the little things you need, that can make that situation much better.

[โ€“] healthetank@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That's a great idea. Definitely worth trying a short testing run to see what's needed.

I live up north so it'll have to wait for winter as that's worst case scenario. Likely involve me picking up an extra half dozen old wool blankets from the used clothing store.

When you prepped for hurricanes, was there every anything specific to a hurricane in terms of first order effects you'd prep for, or was it all knock on effects ( no power, bad water, etc rather than broken windows, flooding)?