In article >,
"Dee Dee" > wrote:

> "Omelet" > wrote in message
> news
> > I'm not a pessimist, and am far enough away from proposed ground zeros
> > to at least have a chance. ;-)
> >
> > If I were to die, at least I'd not die hungry.
> > --
> > Peace, Om
>
>
> About a year ago we were at a Costco in one particular town that had a
> bucket of survival food, I believe it was $75. None of the other Costco
> stores have carried it, because I've asked. I would have purchased it that
> day, but our car was loaded down.

Oh I've heard of those!
Supposed to be good for laying in for hurricanes, tornadoes and
earthquakes etc.

>
> What has made me wonder is, does someone know something about this
> particular store area that the rest of us don't and that is the reason they
> are carrying this product?

What is your biggest disaster danger in your area? Here it is tornadoes
and floods. We are far enough away from the coast to not NORMALLY be
affected by hurricanes, but Katrina was supposed to possibly come far
enough inland to cause serious flooding.

I know the local stores were wiped out of bottled water and a lot of
canned food, but I keep a lot of salt free cans on hand normally and we
get water in gallon glass bottles from the local vending machines so we
were well set. We have about 20 bottles. I just stocked up on pet food
and bought some batteries for the flashlights. Oh, and lamp oil since I
have 4 oil lamps I use for power outages. We've been without power for
up to 2 days during ice storms. Surprisingly, lamp oil WITHOUT
citronella was hard to find! I had to hit the craft store for it.

Citronella laced lamp oil is not recommended for indoor use.

There is a slight danger of earthquakes, but the Balcones fault has not
moved for 300,000 years so I'm not too worried about sitting right on
top of it. <g>

A tornado touched down less than 5 miles from my house this spring, but
the hilly terrain protects us from that somewhat. We are West of IH-35
and most tornadoes stay East of it.

>
> I'm still pondering this. -as you can tell.
> Dee Dee

So ask them. :-)
--
Peace, Om

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