So much for being prepared. I was intending to finish this chapter this morning, but woke up with a blinding migraine, so I'll publish now just to make sure this part gets out as promised, and update it in a couple of hours. If folks send me an email address, I'll email them when I put the updates in.
A hearty welcome to both those who dropped in for Chapter 0 on April Fool's Day and those popping in on the spur of the moment. Chapter 0 (I'm in computers, we start counting at 0, sue me.) was the general teaser and index of the series to be, and, as promised, Chapter 1 is a collection of ramblings on food and food storage issues that relate to emergency preparedness.
While lack of water can kill you far faster, water is generally relatively cheap compared to food, and generally more available, except in limited circumstances which we'll address later in the series. We all eat, though, and with weather getting more and more unpredictable, it's a nice feeling to know that if a blizzard is about to hit, you don't have to frantically run to the store and fight the mobs of unprepared folks. In addition, food preparedness usually equates to money saved, which is a bonus in these tight economic times.
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