stormchaser06's Blog

Wow. Great shot. Does your mom always worry when you go out to chase the weather? I bet she does. The message can't be said enough. I was watching NGC I think Friday night and the guy who has the show Survivorman was doing a special on Surviving Urban Disasters and it was three-fold special -- what to do if water starts coming in your house and you have to bunker down there for awhile; what to do if you are caught in a car with the water rising (he did an interesting thing with using a tool to tear the seatbelts to make a 20-foot life line that he snapped into the seatbelt and then he used it to help him so he wouldn't get swept up by the water and 20-feet was enough to get him to safe ground. It was quite clever.

If I see it advertised again, I'll let you know. He was talking to a woman whose house flooded in New Orleans. The third part, I didn't mention, was what to do if you get stuck at the office when there is a bad storm and flood waters are rising and you don't know how many days you might have to hold out. Really good suggestions, but the one thing I might have missed because I was working at the same time was that I never saw him turn off the power to the house. That would be the first thing I would think of -- once the flood waters reached your outlets you can get electrocuted. He talked about the importance of keeping dry and to keep climbing and out of the water as long as possible and to take off the wet clothes and use cornstarch to suck up the moisture because your skin can just peel off if it gets too wet for too long. Something I surely didn't have in my emergency kit! Ha! I think you would like this particular show. I've seen the versions of him getting put out to sea in a raft and how to survive that, or if you get stuck in the snow and wilderness how to survive that. But this urban twist to it was much more helpful I think.