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El nino update
(thelemmy.club)
If you have not organized your community yet now is the time
https://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/were-all-preppers-now/
Say you live in a flood prone area. Obviously a go bag is a good idea. Is there anything in the coming months that can be done beyond that?
You could talk to your neighbours, prepare an emergency plan for potential disasters
Prepare 3-4 emergency plans. If you have only one, and shit goes sideways, you want a backup plan. And a backup plan for your backup plan.
Some wire shelves to keep important stuff off of floor level. A shop vac for smaller flooded areas, or an extra sump pump if you have an underground basement.
I think some companies make these inflatable tubes that go around your house and you can fill them with water and they provide a barrier about 2-3 feet high.
It's probably expensive and uses a lot of water, and requires a clear space around your house, but it's worth considering if it's an option for you.
For a more permanent investment, you could dig a trench and mound the dirt up beside it, but this depends on what's buried nearby. You could also try routing it to an artificial pond of some sort.
Make sure the drainage ditches and culverts near your house are clear. If they're overgrown or clogged, either clear them yourself or tell your county to clear them.
Beyond that, sandbags can help with the gaps under doors if you're just dealing with a few inches.
The best preparation for disaster is building community. Form tenant unions and labor unions. Join or form community gardens. Join your local library. Talk to your neighbors. Anything that creates cohesion with the people around you. Then, when a disaster hits, the community doesn't need to come together because it's already together
https://www.cdc.gov/floods/safety/index.html
Sort of depends what your resources are, there's a continuum between doing nothing and full doomsday prepper. It also depends on what sort of flood you're preparing for. Like, 6 inches of water in the house, or the house is gone? Anything that gets touched by flood water is basically coated in literal shit, so you have to prepare for everything from the water level down to be completely wrecked but (hopefully) not utterly smashed like in a tornado.
Probably wise to keep some water and food. A small power bank for electronics. If you have expensive or irreplaceable things put them on an upper floor or at least off the ground if you can. If you've got some more money you could think about a generator, not just for you but for your sump pump (if you've got one). If you plan to leave maybe scope out a place you can go so you don't end up in a shelter. Figure out a plan for your animals, if you have any.
If you have insurance, take pictures or record everything you have. You want make and model of everything when it comes time to get reimbursed. You will forget a bunch of shit, and if you specify "coffee maker" you will get a $15 coffee maker, instead of the "Miele UltraCoffee 9000, Stainless Steel, with Grinder" that you lost (for example).
Thanks. My neighborhood is protected by a levy so it's kind of a NOLA situation where flooding is probably all or nothing. However from what I've been reading, the levies are no longer able to contain a potentially historic flood due to climate change, and with this severe El Niño it seems much more likely to occur this year than a normal one.
If it's anything like where I lived, they might also just sacrifice your neighborhood by letting it flood to protect a much bigger one downstream (the little neighborhood known as "the greater Paris Area" in my case)
Have you all your important documents, photos in the cloud?
Anything will work as long as you encrypt first.
No. Is there a good option for cloud storage that isn't a privacy nightmare?
Selfhosting isn't really an option in this case, but Nextcloud is a thing.
For this situation, I guess just storing them in external SSD's and stashing those (multiple for redundancy) in watertight containers within your home.
We encrypt a drive and trade it with a friend at their house. I also have some stuff at my moms house as backup, but now that I think about it, I haven’t updated it this year.