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Stock up on food. Progresso soups are particularly good as they require no additional moisture and can be eaten from the can. Get 5-gallon buckets and fill with water-useful for washing, bathing, flushing toilets, and catching water from gutters. Fill up your cars with gas and a couple of 5-gallon jerry cans. If you have a propane grill buy a couple of extra tanks. Get a Coleman stove that uses propane and a Mr. Heater.
If you take medicines, get a three- month supply from your doctor. Do that immediately.
Remember your hot water tank has potable water.
Get several hundred dollars in cash- ones, fives, and tens. No 20s, 50s, or 100s.
Get plenty of dog food, cat food, and cat littler.
Make a first aid-kit with lots of gauze, bandages, antiseptics, scissors, aspirin, ibuprofen, and acetaminophen. 70% alcohol, bleach, and a fifth of PGA.
Even if you don't use this stuff for this event, you now have an emergency supply that you should have already had on hand.
Avoid crowds, hospitals, and Wal-Mart. Go shopping now. When the panic hits it will be too late. Avoid driving after dark and before daylight.
Honestly, it may happen and it may not. You have no control over it. All you can control is your reaction to the situation.