Earthquake preparedness thread - post your suggestions or questions

Cycle61

What the shit is this...
Anyway, anyone have tips on getting my insurance company to over my asthma meds for an emergency kit? Fuckers won't even let me refill a 90 day script until 5 days before it ends. I actually had to quit using walgreen's ship to me option because it wouldn't get here before I ran out pretty often.
:mad

Any way you can space them out just a little more and start saving up? Say, take one every 30 hours instead of every 24? I did that with some medication I was on years ago, managed to get about a month ahead of the curve on it.
 

Asphaultnaut

Own the Mess You've Made!
Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.


Anyway, anyone have tips on getting my insurance company to over my asthma meds for an emergency kit? Fuckers won't even let me refill a 90 day script until 5 days before it ends. I actually had to quit using walgreen's ship to me option because it wouldn't get here before I ran out pretty often.
:mad

California makes out pretty well.

Now I'm looking into more effective air filter options for my bugout machine LOL
 

Marlowe

Beer Whisperer
Any way you can space them out just a little more and start saving up? Say, take one every 30 hours instead of every 24? I did that with some medication I was on years ago, managed to get about a month ahead of the curve on it.

Just go to Mexico and buy a bunch. Cheaper anyway, unless you've got a good prescription plan.
 

SummerLove

Tired SRE
Just go to Mexico and buy a bunch. Cheaper anyway, unless you've got a good prescription plan.

I've been thinking about doing something similar. When I was uninsured I ended up paying about 120 bucks a month to get everything from Canada vs 500-600 here. None of it are controlled substances so it should be a big deal.
 

Cycle61

What the shit is this...
I've been thinking about doing something similar. When I was uninsured I ended up paying about 120 bucks a month to get everything from Canada vs 500-600 here. None of it are controlled substances so it should be a big deal.

That's important. Mine was controlled, so the Mexico trick wouldn't have been such a good idea.
 

SummerLove

Tired SRE
Wow I can into englrish.

Yeah, the important stuff for me is just my asthma medications. Side from the Advair, I can get the rest of it as cheap generics from Canada or Mexico and even the Advair is a lot cheaper there. I know better than to try bringing controlled substances in from out of the country. Fuck I wish Modafinil wasn't a controlled substance here. I have a script for it but it's like $12 bucks a pill even with my insurance covering part of it. Stuff is less than a $1 a pill else where.
 
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Asphaultnaut

Own the Mess You've Made!
what does it feel like to be riding when a quake hits? How do you ride it out if you're on the freeway at speed? Is it something that can be ridden out or are you automatically down when the ground shifts sideways, or up or however it decides to roll?

Ive been fortunate enough to miss all the major stuff and be off the bike for the minor stuff of the last decade.
 

V4

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
2 deep water 'oarfish' beached themselves this month...scientists believe this can be a warning for an earthquake...:rollseye

whatever

newslink here..

Finding a giant oarfish washed up on the beach is a rare occurrence, since the fish is a deepwater species that's rarely seen at all. So when a second oarfish was found just five days later, the rumor mill kicked into high gear.

An 18-foot-long (5.5-meter) oarfish carcass discovered on Oct. 13 was considered a once-in-a-lifetime event for beachgoers on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California. But that event was followed five days later by a second oarfish, measuring 14 feet (4.3 meters), found on a beach in San Diego County.

Now, some are claiming that oarfish washing ashore is a sign that an earthquake will soon follow. Shortly before the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, about 20 oarfish stranded themselves on beaches in the area, Mark Benfield, a researcher at Louisiana State University, told LiveScience in an earlier interview. [Video - ROV Captures Bizarre Deep-Sea Oarfish]

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Killroy1999

Well-known member
No one reads the skickys.

Does anyone know of a phone to phone app that would by-pass cell towers in case of emergecy?


PTT ON<breaker breaker, good buddy, come back> PTT OFF
 

Cycle61

What the shit is this...
No one reads the skickys.

Does anyone know of a phone to phone app that would by-pass cell towers in case of emergecy?


PTT ON<breaker breaker, good buddy, come back> PTT OFF

Not sure if the phones are made to do that. Definitely not compatible between different providers, the broadcast technology is totally different.
 

canyonrat

Veteran Knee Dragger
Being in construction and doing seismic retrofits my advise is simple.

Have food and water, for you and your family and some extra to friends and neighbors. Based upon Katrina keep 10 days worth.

Go to your hallway during a quake, it often is the only area with no furniture.

Keep spare gasoline, 5-10gallons will get your vehicle out of the devastated area and to the next gas station.

Remember the "BIG ONE" might leave your car laying on its' side and your living room furniture out the window, it will be BIG.
 

V4

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
Recent earthquakes
earthquake.usgs.gov
Time Magnitude Location
14 minutes ago 3.6 Greater Los Angeles area, California
35 minutes ago 5.1 Greater Los Angeles area, California
1 hour ago 3.6 Greater Los Angeles area, California

edit: 3/29/14
 
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sidewazzz

Well-known member
Recent earthquakes
earthquake.usgs.gov
Time Magnitude Location
14 minutes ago 3.6 Greater Los Angeles area, California
35 minutes ago 5.1 Greater Los Angeles area, California
1 hour ago 3.6 Greater Los Angeles area, California

edit: 3/29/14

The 5.1 shook our place really good last night. Started exactly like the one from 94. It was a very weird feeling because it went on for a good 10 seconds.
 

milo2

Expensive by design
Subject: Where to Go During an Earthquake

Where to Go During an Earthquake

Remember that stuff about hiding under a table or standing in a doorway? Well, forget it! This is a real eye opener. It could save your life someday.

EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON 'THE TRIANGLE OF LIFE'
My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI ), the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake.


I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries. I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years, and have worked at every major disaster in the world since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.


The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under its desk. Every child was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lying down next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene -- unnecessary.


Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them - NOT under them. This space is what I call the 'triangle of life'. The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the 'triangles' you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building.



TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY

1) Most everyone who simply 'ducks and covers' when building collapse are crushed to death. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.


2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position. You should too in an earthquake. It is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to a bed, next to a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.


3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created. Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.


4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a sign on the back of the door of every room telling occupants to lie down on the floor, next to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.


5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out the door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa, or large chair.


6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!


7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different 'moment of frequency' (they swing separately from the main part of the building). The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads - horribly mutilated. Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is not damaged.


8) Get near the outer walls of buildings or outside of them if possible - It is much better to be near the outside of the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.


9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed. They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles. Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.


10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.


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