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Prepare now
for earthquake

THE PAST week has given us such an overload of horror
stories from the San Francisco area that we are becoming

immune.

On a smaller scale, it’s becom-
ing something like a war —
remember the stories of the Lon-
don blitz? After a while. people
would still be dancing and drinking
in underground bars while the
bombs dropped all around.

beaters
Barbara McCreadie

There is a fine line between
those who can’t sleep at night for
fear the same tragedy may strike
here at home and others who
assume the old fatalist theory —
“When my number comes up...’”

I'm caught somewhere in be-
tween — I sleep very well, but
what if my number is eight and 72
hits the till?

So, just to improve the odds a
bit, I began by reading page 37 of
our phone book and doing a little
research arourd the house.

The house itself is a fairly safe
structure. We have a windowless
inner hall that has the main bear-
ing wall on one side. Our two gas
shut-off valves are easy to handle
as is the breaker box. I located the
main water shut-off. Our bricks
and chimneys are in good shape.

We, on the North Shore, ere
probably safer than most residents
of the Lower Mainland because
our homes are rooted into granite.

The skies usually see to it that
we don’t lack water, but if that
fails we have enough creeks and
rivers that no one is more than a
good hike from some sort of water
supply.

But in our house, two vital sur-
vival safeguards are seriously lack-
ing: first, we’d soon starve to
death and, second, our first-aid kit
consists of a few elderly bandages
and a dried-out tube of first aid
cream.

It is recommended that every
family have enough non-perishable
food to feed each family member
for a week.

As things stand now, we'd be
down to pickles and soda biscuits
by day two. I'll be the lady you
may see with a shopping cart full
of canned beans, soup, dried fruit
and powdered milk.

I'm not going to try to turn my
medicine cabinet into a_ mini-
drugstore, but I think it’s about
time I retired the present contents
and upgraded a bit.

We don’t have one working
flashlight in the house and [I’ve
never owned a fire extinguisher.
About time to patch that crack in
our defences.

One important note: our four
cats are fine friends and they
deserve to be fed as well. It’s no
big deal to keep an extra stock of
chow stored away.

| think it's important if your
family pet is a dog. Hungry dogs
will often boit, joining other dog.

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nusyvarna Serger ;
Demonstrations in these stores
RICHMOND .
Oct 24, 27, 30, 31, 1:00-3:00
+ Oct. 26, 27, 1:00-4:00
ABBOTSFORD :
Oct. 26, 27, 10:00-32:00
NORTH VAN - Capilano Mall
Oct. 26, 27, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Lonsdale Ave.
Oct. 27, 11:00-3:00 Oct. 28, 1:00-4:00

LANGLEY
Oct. 26, 27, 30, 31, 11:00 - 3:00

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