For those of you who haven't already, regardless of whether or not you think you can afford to do so, please buy as much storable food as you can pay for. Get 5-gallon buckets and Gamma bucket seals, and mylar bags with oxygen absorbers (300cc per 2lb bag), squish the air out of the bags as well as you can and seal them with an iron on high; each bucket with about 20 or 30 pounds of rice/beans takes just a little bit of time and costs only about $40 including the buckets, seals, oxygen absorbers, and the food. If you don't have the time but you have some extra money, order some Augason Farms food buckets.

Also buy water (5 gallon jugs OR long term water storage containers and fill them yourself), enough for at least a month for everybody in your house, and then Sawyer Squeeze water filters to get water yourself, if you have a fresh water source nearby. The jugs/storage containers are for situations exactly like this train derailment where you can't even drink the water filtered. Just imagine shit hit the fan in that area right now and people couldn't get water other than that polluted trash... don't let your family die over a few hundred dollars worth of preparation.

For those of you who haven't already, regardless of whether or not you think you can afford to do so, please buy as much storable food as you can pay for. Get 5-gallon buckets and Gamma bucket seals, and mylar bags with oxygen absorbers (300cc per 2lb bag), squish the air out of the bags as well as you can and Seal them with an iron on high; each bucket with about 20 or 30 pounds of rice/beans takes just a little bit to do hand costs only about $40 including the buckets, seals, oxygen absorbers, and the food. If you don't have the time but you have some extra money, order some Augason Farms food buckets.

Also buy water (5 gallon jugs OR long term water storage containers and fill them yourself), enough for at least a month for everybody in your house, and then Sawyer Squeeze water filters to get water yourself, if you have a fresh water source nearby. The jugs/storage containers are for situation is exactly like this train derailment where you can't even drink the water filtered. Just imagine shit hit the fan in that area right now and people couldn't get water other than that polluted trash... don't let your family die over a few hundred dollars worth of preparation.