See how long batteries, candles, bottled water and food last in Florida two days BEFORE a hurricane hits....
If you need something, you better either have enough of it on hand now, or have a realistic, tested plan on making it yourself...relying on the charity of others is simply delusional.
And if you don't have the gear now, know how to use it, and what special things you need to run it how will you know that it takes a special battery or wrench or whatever? That the antenna connector you thought was BNC is actually a mini-TNC (the manufacturer changed the specs last month) and you need a special adapter?
Finally, we're talking about serious investments here...are you sufficiently prescient to know when the balloon is going up, so that you will be able to run down to the local survivalist store and buy the stuff you need? Not to mention you will need a very, very hefty pile of money to buy it all at once, and I've yet to find a single store that sells everything I want, need or desire - I've got to go to several. In addition to that prescience and cash, better give yourself a few days, and a big truck to haul it.
Or, start now, and do a little each week.
Emergency Medicine - saving the world from themselves, one at a time.
"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."
I make the ADL soil themselves. And that makes me very happy
