Sidley Park Hermit

1. Have you ever experienced a hurricane firsthand?

No.

2. Have you ever experienced outside heat over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees C)?

Oh, sure. In Vegas, in Seattle, maybe in Chicago though I don't remember specific three-digit days there. I'm sure it'll be happening more in this part of California in the future too. It's miserable.

3. When and where was the coldest temperature you have ever experienced?

In Chicago it would get pretty close to zero (F) in the winter. According to timeanddate.com, it never cracked below zero when I lived there, though it was often below freezing. That was the worst too! I'm not sure which was more the worst, the winter or the summer.

4. Is your household prepared for a possible power outage of two to seven days?

Hrrm. Are we talking just power, or water and power? I actually think we'd be good, although if it was a whole seven days we sure wouldn't be happy. By then we'd have just gone to stay somewhere else, though, assuming this wasn't an apocalyptic kind of disaster.

5. Do you have a go bag?

Oh yeah. Putting together go-bags is kind of relaxing for me. I should go around and update all that stuff, though, because it has been a while since I did any maintenance on our emergency shit, and just now I was thinking "what kind of thing would we exactly need to evacuate from in this part of the country anyway" and then I remembered about fire. On that note, I should also get the tree trimmers out here while it's the cool season.