Assuaging the Paranoia
Mar. 29th, 2025 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitToday's prep: buying two gallons of bottled water, one of which came into the house and one of which remained in my car. This leaves me with three gallons of water total in the house. I am trying for the "72 hours of supplies" that various European governments were telling their citizens to have. Given that there are nominally four people in the house and I'm the only one doing this, I'm still a ways off on that point. (If you are about to tell me how very easy it is to store my own water in reusable containers, I am aware. I am doing this in the way that I have spoons to.)
I'm actually just fine on 72 hours of food, but that's because I go grocery shopping exactly once a week. I rarely don't have 72 hours of food in the house-- even in a situation where the power is out.
Tomorrow I really am going to go to a garden center, for real this time. This may wind up being Home Depot, which is not ideal but again, doing the prep at all is better than not doing it-- I am going to attempt bush zucchini in pots.
Also if anyone local wants someone to watch their kids while they protest or knows someone who wants someone to watch their kids while they protest, we should talk. (My one rule for this is that you have to leave me with a plan for what to do with the kids in the event you get arrested at said protest. Doesn't have to be a super detailed plan-- a relative's phone number is fine--but there needs to be something.)
Oh, and apparently the situation with the Canada tariffs has the potential to cause a toilet paper shortage because of the way our lumber mill trading partnerships work, so this might be a good moment to stock up.
I'm actually just fine on 72 hours of food, but that's because I go grocery shopping exactly once a week. I rarely don't have 72 hours of food in the house-- even in a situation where the power is out.
Tomorrow I really am going to go to a garden center, for real this time. This may wind up being Home Depot, which is not ideal but again, doing the prep at all is better than not doing it-- I am going to attempt bush zucchini in pots.
Also if anyone local wants someone to watch their kids while they protest or knows someone who wants someone to watch their kids while they protest, we should talk. (My one rule for this is that you have to leave me with a plan for what to do with the kids in the event you get arrested at said protest. Doesn't have to be a super detailed plan-- a relative's phone number is fine--but there needs to be something.)
Oh, and apparently the situation with the Canada tariffs has the potential to cause a toilet paper shortage because of the way our lumber mill trading partnerships work, so this might be a good moment to stock up.
