Disaster Preparedness

Ok, I'm not an alarmist; there have supposedly been a shit ton of microsisms here. I'm going to enumerate your priorities right here, which will apply in any natural disaster.
1. Drinkable water. You cannot live much longer than three days without that.
2. Dispossable water. You have to be able to wash your hands after you shit, or you gonna die covered in shit, and I'll be damned if I'm going to give you a decent burial if you pull that shit.
3. Food. You cannot live much longer than 5 days without that.
4. Freeforall. Once you run out of drinkable water, and dispossable water, you gotta start finding food somehow, and you have to search the nearest natural stream, and you have to start a fucking system. It's not fucking difficult; but if an asshole fucks it up, all the rest of you sharing that water system have to machete him to death to make an example out of him. It's the law of the river.
The world doesn't stop turning because of an earthquake; but douchebags do stop after an earthquake. 

For number one, if you have a hot water heater. That thing holds like 30 gallons. There is a water valve at the bottom. Even after the water stops running, there is still a crapload of water in there. Shut off all the gas mains, and then you got 30 gallons of water, that you should probably boil, and maybe before you even do that pour just a little chlorine bleach in, and let evaporate before you actually drink. Don't even think about a showering until you get running water again; but do wash your hands constantly.

for number 3,  specifically about food.  I make it a point of keeping a certain amount of canned food on hand.  Bread takes a long time to spoil in the fridge, flour and dry yeast won't go bad at room temperature, so you can make bread out of that.  You can eat anything that might go bad in your fridge for about two days if it's without power, after that, throw it out.  Anything pickled , and most condiments, except mayo, will last you for a pretty much indefinite amount of time.  I'm not talking about any funky shit that I don't even know about, so if you happen to eat bad hollaindaise sauce (who the fuck even does that, man?  Smell the shit before you eat it, plus that shit tastes nasty as it is).  If you have eggs, make a cake.  It will cheer the fuck out of everybody.  If a bunch of people leave leftover bread on their plates, make bread pudding for  everybody.  Trust me, it will lift morale, and you will get rid of those eggs mighty quick.

5.  Looting time.  Make sure you know how to do it, and do it right.  Don't break into anybody's house.  Good way  to either get shot, or get fuckall for your trouble, or end up eating cat food, which is just as bad, or so I'm told.  Break into your supermarket, and get as much canned food as you can.  You really need a car and few specific tools for this.  Otherwise, don't do it, because you only have a couple of minutes to get in and get out.

6.  Hunting and gathering time.  This is pretty extreme; but I just mention it because if things get really extreme, you might have to do that.  Notice that I put it at the end of the list.  That's because of hunting mainly, because in some places, even though deer are pretty much ginormous rats, it's illegal to kill them.  Although, if you can bring some venison to feed the whole neighborhood, I doubt anybody will give a fuck.  Also, if you set up snares, most of what you catch, you are not gonna even wanna eat.  

However, another danger arises with plant life.  A lot of that shit is poisonous.  Here's a good rule of thumb.  If you haven't seen it at the supermarket, don't eat that shit.  People say that you can try certain leaves by chewing them and seeing if they make you throw up.  I fucking say, that if it's not at the fucking supermarket, don't fucking eat it, goddamnit.  There's fucking wheatgrass at the fucking supermarket.  If that's not proof that some assholes will eat anything, no matter how bad it tastes, as long as it's not poisonous, I don't know what is.  And yes; belladonna won't kill you; but jimson weed can, and I don't know anybody that can tell the difference between the two.  Also, stay the fuck away from wild mushrooms.  Some of them won't kill you; but the last thing you need in a survival situation is to be tripping balls.  So here's what you do, only eat shit you've seen at the supermarket.