The City of San Francisco has a remarkable site, 72 Hours, to help you create an emergency kit and deal with many different situations. You can actually print the whole site as a PDF.
Any other good preparedness sites we should know about?
The NYC Office of Emergency Management also has a good, short but complete page on go bags. The rest of the site is also useful (though, as you might expect, geared toward urban preparedness, as opposed to the sorts of things you'd do in the suburbs or out in rural territory).
They left one important step off the earthquake page. It is vital that immediately after the shaking stops, you make bets on magnitude and which fault line let loose.
One oft overlooked absolute emergency source of water in your house is... the cistern of your toilets. Take a wrench, funnel and water jug, and remove the water hose going to the stem. Then start loosening the stem itself. Let the water leak out and catch it in the jug with the funnel. This is enough to keep a family alive for a couple of days if they are careful with it.
It's not a first choice, certainly. But it beats dying.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2011-03-11 02:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-11 05:04 pm (UTC)(I've been doing FEMA independent study courses as of late due to other things I work with, so it was the first thing that popped into my head.)
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Date: 2011-03-11 06:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-11 07:59 pm (UTC)It's not a first choice, certainly. But it beats dying.
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Date: 2011-03-12 12:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-12 06:07 am (UTC)The Coffee Can Emergency Kit. I carry one in the trunk of my car. A #10 coffee can can hold lots of emergency repair equipment.
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Date: 2011-03-13 02:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-13 02:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-03-12 06:05 pm (UTC)And if you are into long term planning, The Mormons have some good info for long term storage of supplies.
Unfortunately I lost all my links to disaster preparedness last year when the old computer died. There were a bunch from right after Katrina.
Done yesterday (20110311 Fr)
Date: 2011-03-12 08:20 pm (UTC)