Facing the Fury: Survival expert provides hurricane preparedness tips
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Natural disasters can cut off the power, and it's important to be prepared with a couple items that can get you through those days.
Cody Lundin has decades of survival experience, and runs the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Arizona.
Lundin says stocking up on water before a hurricane hits is the most important thing to do. Given the climate in the Rio Grande Valley, Lundin recommends having three gallons of water per person per day.
Commercially available iodine tablets and filters used during camping can help you purify water if you run short. Boiling water will kill off bacteria and viruses. But if your water is contaminated with chemicals, water may need more treatment for you to safely drink.
For food, Lundin says items that stay preserved in their containers are best.
You can go out and get expensive backpacking meals and MREs, but you can also get something simpler like these canned goods that last for a long time.
When the electricity and the gas go, out a simple camping stove can get you through a couple of days, and can help you cook a meal.
Compressed butane will give you a flame that will burn for hours, and that you can switch off and on.
Camp stoves also allow you to use twigs and debris to control a flame.
Tree removal equipment such as axes, saws, machetes and chainsaws may also come in handy, if you know how to safely use them.
Don't forget a light source like a flashlight and fresh batteries.
But the most important tip, Lundin says, is to avoid the storm, get away, and avoid putting yourself in danger.
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