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What I Learned About Emergency Disaster Kits

Just recently Tropical Storm Fay swept through our state of Florida in a type of fancy "cross-stitch" pattern. As a result, I realized just how unprepared we were. Should this have been a major natural disaster, our only chances of survival would have had to devise some type of scheme to steal supplies from our neighbors. That's assuming they were any better off than we were.

So, Fay's taught me several things. Here's what I've learned:

• I learned that according to disaster guides, one should have one gallon of water for each person for seven days. That means for our family of four, we should have stored 28 gallons of water. I took count of what we had and it seems that I need to go to the store and buy 28 gallons of water to bring our total up to the recommended 28 gallons of water.
• I learned that I had no idea where the Emergency Disaster Kits were. I knew that we had two...I think. But I had to go on a mission to find them. The first I found rather quickly (also found a plastic egg from last year's Easter Egg Hunt). It was under the sink:

The other (at least I think it's the other one), seems that it was under our "just-decided-is-next-week's-garage-sale" items. Then again, it could just be my collection of Civil War Figurines that I haven't seen for years. At one time I thought we'd make millions off of them. Now, they'll be joining the "just-decided-is-next-week's-garage-sale" items.

• I learned that Lee Lee and I had been "borrowing" from our Emergency Disaster Kits. A can of tuna here...some batteries for the kid's toys there...some bottled water for my coffee, etc.... Too lazy to go to the store five blocks from our house, we just pilfered our Emergency Disaster Kit.
• I learned that of the items that were left, they had expired. Not just by a day, a week or a month, but by years... LOTS OF YEARS!

Tylenol and what the military calls MREs (Meal, Ready-to-Eat)

Funny thing about Lee Lee,she won't drink milk if it's on the day it expires. Yet she's quick to tell me that Hydrogen Peroxide just turns to water when it gets old. Great! I'm thinking. Now I only have to get 27-1/2 gallons of water.

• I've learned that earthquakes and hurricanes each have their own unique language.
• Earthquakes produce seismic waves.
• Hurricanes produce tidal waves or storm surges.
• Earthquakes have epicenters.
• Hurricanes have "eyes" as in "eye of the storm."
• Earthquakes are measured in magnitudes.
• Hurricanes are measured by wind speeds and are placed in categories.
• Earthquakes are tracked on Seismograph Machines.
• Hurricanes are tracked with Doppler Radar.
• Earthquakes spawn aftershocks which could be just as deadly.
• Hurricanes spawn tornadoes which can be just as deadly.

The list goes on. But I'm not going to. I have to go to the store and buy some supplies for the next one!

tori come back!

it looks like tori spelling isn't coming back to the new 90210.  tori, say it isn't so!

money issues appear to be holding her back.  i think she's worth the same as shannen doherty and jennie garth.  what do you think?

but when you grow up with the kind of money aaron spelling, had i guess you look at money a little different than other people.

i did the make up for promos for aaron spelling's book (and other projects i don't remember). what i do remember is aaron having an amazing office... and security that brought me up to his office... and china cups and saucers... and pictures of tori EVERYWHERE... and him proudly working her into the conversation at every possible opportunity... and the office had heated doorknobs (yes, you read that right: HEATED DOORKNOBS!!)... and... oh never mind.

anyway, good luck tori!  i hope they pay you enough to have heated doorknobs for your house.

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Brad and Angie's Twins???

Okay... other than Brad himself, what guy really cares?

And you ask where I have been for the past 9 months? Well let me just say I've been staying in touch with many more important newsworthy items.

My Top Ten List Includes:

     10. Following the NBA Playoffs

      9.  Watching the Super Bowl (should have been the Pats!)

      8.  Watching the Stanley Cup Championship

      7.  Watching The Men's U.S. Open Golf Championship

      6.  Watching The Women's U.S. Open Golf Championship (well for three holes)

      5.  Watching the price of gas go up at the Shell station down the street (almost hourly).

      4.  Following the story about the man who shot his lawnmower because he couldn't get it started (What man hasn't considered this option?).

      3.  Watching 20 of the 21 Stages of the Tour de France (missed #9).

      2.  Watching "Celebrity Circus" Reality TV (Was pulling for Wee Man to win. Who's Wee Man? Click Here. ).

And the umber 1 Top Ten List of More Important Newsworthy Items is:

      1.  Trying to follow Brett Favre on Mapquest as he jumps around the country and where he lands...no one knows (Green Bay? Tampa Bay? Minnesota? Green Bay?... re-retirement?)

Perhaps some of our readers would like to share their own "Top Ten List of More Important Things Than To Follow Brad and Angie's Twins Story."

P.S. Will they be showing just the twins or will Angelina be in the pictures too?