Every good office needs a good supply of gear to keep it running. If you’re a small office, there is probably some sucker (usually the IT guy, or someone else who’s “handy”) who gets all the facilities and similar requests. That sucker usually happens to be me because… I’m handy (that and I love being [...]
Archive of posts filed under the DisasterPrep category.
Disaster Prep: Have you checked your supplies recently?
This post is part of a series on disaster preparedness. Each entry will cover one part of the preparations I’m making a “disaster kit”, along with why I’m including the items, how important they are, and how much they cost. See the initial posting for more details. Roughly two years ago I posted a series [...]
CDC offers tips on Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse
Recently, the CDC tweeted about the Zombie Apocalypse. I found this intriguing for a number of reasons (not the least of which was that the CDC had a twitter feed). Their post about the Zombie Apocalypse was fairly amusing, and what they were really using it as a vehicle for was to raise disaster preparedness [...]
MythBusters says “Buy a damn window breaker”
Last night after the Thanksgiving festivities, I sat down to watch some MythBusters. The episode was titled “Inverted Underwater Car”, which turned out to be a revisit of the “Underwater Car” episode from a few years back. MythBusters is always entertaining (doubly so when anything gets blown up. See also: every other episode) and tends [...]
Zombie Apocalypse: “Go Bag” Gear List
Stop. Imagine for a moment, you’re at home, enjoying a nice relaxing afternoon, reading your favorite blog, and suddenly you realize… the Zombie Apocalypse has hit. Outside of your window you see the undead wandering about. Shit, things are going south and they are going fast. You need to get your gear and get out [...]
Disaster Prep: Shelter
This post is part of a series on disaster preparedness. Each entry will cover one part of the preparations I’m making for a “disaster kit”, along with why I’m including the items, how important they are, and how much it cost. See the initial posting for more details. Directly after there is a disaster that [...]
Disaster Prep: First Aid
This post is part of a series on disaster preparedness. Each entry will cover one part of the preparations I’m making for a “disaster kit”, along with why I’m including the items, how important they are, and how much it cost. See the initial posting for more details. First Aid supplies are another item from [...]
Disaster Prep: Tools
This post is part of a series on disaster preparedness. Each entry will cover one part of the preparations I’m making for a “disaster kit”, along with why I’m including the items, how important they are, and how much it cost. See the initial posting for more details. In the case of a natural disaster, [...]
Disaster Prep: Food & Water
This post is part of a series on disaster preparedness. Each entry will cover one part of the preparations I’m making for a “disaster kit”, along with why I’m including the items, how important they are, and how much it cost. See the initial posting for more details. This is one of those posts that [...]
