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surprise_i'm_armed wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:21 pm I have been wondering something, and would like to get comments on the following scenario:

People have sometimes constructed a "safe room" against tornados. If their house took a direct hit from a tornado, the rest of the house could collapse upon the safe room. How would the occupants alert others on the outside to their predicament? Whistles? Bullhorn? Satellite phone (but wouldn't it need to have a clear view of the sky?)

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Rafe wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 2:52 pm

Paladin wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:26 am Roughly a third of the 2,179 U.S. adults surveyed by financial-services company Finder in April said they spent an average of $149 on items including nonperishable food, medical supplies and cases of water in the past year.

Wow. Only a third. And they spent an average of $149 a year?

Surveys and rising sales of prefabricated disaster kits indicate that Americans are more apt to keep emergency supplies on hand than they were a few years ago. Roughly a third of the 2,179 U.S. adults surveyed by financial-services company Finder in April said they spent an average of $149 on items including nonperishable food, medical supplies and cases of water in the past year. That is up from about 20% who said they did so in 2020.

Those newly packing go-bags and planning emergency escape routes say they used to consider such preparations as overly fearful. Now, they say not doing so is naive.

Prepping is big business, with roughly a third (29%) of the adult population in the US dropping a collective $11 billion in the last 12 months on emergency preparedness, according to a Finder survey.