STUFF

I'm busy Thursday. Maybe I'll post Friday. From Saturday through Tuesday, I'll be in Toronto, Ontario; Canada. SARS be damned, I'm gonna have fun!

I'll also be 22 on Sunday. Man, it feels weird saying that. (wish list is on the left...no, i'm kidding. I don't really want anything for my birthday.)

Laters.

Whatever's going on in Philadelphia is rather big apparently. No link yet---I'm watching NBC10.

Open Thread Poll Type Thing

Which state is the Creepiest state?


(I'm torn between my home state of Pennsylvania, California, and Florida.)

I've been punching a lot of walls lately.

(you have to read to find out why, I'm not going to explain it because I'm pissed the fuck off.)


When you're done that go read Sean-Paul on Orwell.

Graham will make a hell of a national security advisor in a Clark Presidency.

Good shot, Senator Graham.

I'm in the process of doing something here at Millersville that will make a lot of people angry I think. Or maybe it won't. We'll see how it turns out.

Yes I'm being vague.

I think it will piss people off because research suggests it has at other schools, including Penn State, but mainly at southern schools.

Yes...ethnicity/race is involved.

I'll just leave it at that, for now. I gotta go float some trial ballons.

Shut up, Kennedy...

Normally, I agree with him on nearly most things. Just not this one.

I was gonna say something about Edwards, but I'm not gonna.

Bigots are so fucking stupid.

(no, Atrios isn't a bigot. He's just sarcastic. The individual he's linking to is a bigot. And yes, Pat Robertson can eat a ***t and go to Hell. If that makes me bigoted against Pat Robertson, then oh well. Actually I'll just say it 'cause I'm sure someone will make the argument. I'm bigoted against all bigots. Bummer. As if they were worthy of my sympathy.)

Not that I'm surprised about this particular bigot, Jennifer Graham. She once wrote a column titled "What Would Ann Coulter Do."

I could violate Godwin's Law, but this time I'll just let that one stand.

Sean-Paul's Agonist has been following a story that probably should get more airtime. It's about Diebold and their voting machines.

I rather like the lever machines my county uses. It really is too bad no one makes them anymore. The lever machines, while they have their problems (mainly because they're older than dirt), have a paper trail. The electronic machines do not. One well-placed magnet could wipe out tons of votes, or someone could easily change votes (which the state of Maryland seems to have found out even though they're using them anyway).

Diebold also makes credit card machines. My school uses Diebold credit card swipers. I just noticed that Saturday.

Bad idea.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage pledged on Monday to deepen Washington's ties with Pakistan, dismissing talk of cracks in the relationship after meeting President Pervez Musharraf.

Last week Armitage said some in Pakistan's security community were less than enthusiastic about working with the United States, especially in tracking down Taliban and al Qaeda militants along the Afghan border.

Pakistan has also expressed deep reservations about Washington's decision to allow Israel to sell an advanced early warning radar system to India, saying it would create an arms imbalance in South Asia.

"We are very interested in having a full relationship with Pakistan, not simply one based on the global war on terror, the one that covers the entire gambit -- economic, social, political as well as of course security," Armitage said in Islamabad.

Armitage said he had never questioned Musharraf's sincerity or effort in the war on terror, but said he had only questioned some individuals with the security services.

Pakistan is in those 28 redacted pages. I'm sure of it.

Time is right to question the "seriousness" of Pakistan.

For some reason, Free Republic is showing up in my trackbacks and referral logs. I have no idea why. I don't even want to know why.

Given the fact that most of the denizens of that site, at least the ones I've encountered (save maybe one or two) are not nice individuals, I must lay out the rules. The same goes for anyone coming from Free Republic's liberal cousin, Democratic Underground (another site with a lot of strange, not-so-nice, people.) DU hasn't shown up in my referral logs yet, though.

Short version: This blog is my private property (I pay for this service) in much the way that Free Republic is the property of that sites owners. I reserve the right to delete posts that are personally offensive or threatening to me. I haven't done it yet, and I hope I never have to, although it takes a lot to personally offend me. Haloscan's frequent crashes generally seem make posts disappear all on their own.

This is getting on my nerves

I've stated how I feel about this in the past: NO REPERATIONS. Want to divide a nation? Give a bunch of people free money. I think a far less divisive issue would be a federal museum in the Smithsonian complex in DC. Educate people about the history of slavery in this country. Perhaps others. It's obvious that the wounds haven't quite healed, and haven't done so because people don't want to hear about it, learn about it, read about it, et cetera. Build the museum and the people can educate themselves. We have a museum dedicated to the horror of the Holocaust. I think that's helped with people's understanding of that horrific period and probably shown people why the United States intervenes in humanitarian actions around the world. One dedicated to human slavery could show people that horrific period, and perhaps, end human slavery in our current day.

Didn't we impeach the last guy who couldn't keep it in his pants or keep his hands off the boobies and butts?


Amnesia. I suspect it's 'cause he's a big Hollywood star. And all those muscles, well, he's a 'roid freak. Or was.


At anyrate, he's a nasty slut.

Interesting. . .

Australian researchers said on Sunday they had conducted a successful experiment using two hormones to suppress sperm production, which they said could lead to the first injectable male contraceptive.

. . . . yes. Interesting.

I think everyone can agree that this sucks. It really, really sucks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Jerry Wilmouth moved to Galesburg, Illinois, five years ago, everyone told him to get a job at Maytag Corp.'s (NYSE:MYG - news) refrigerator plant. Maytag paid the best, they said, and the 50-year-old factory was the lifeblood of the city.

Now, Wilmouth and 379 others are spending their first week of life after Maytag -- the first of 1,600 workers to be laid off between now and the end of 2004, when the plant closes for good and Maytag moves the work to Mexico.

The 46-year-old father of three said he has little hope of finding work in Galesburg to match the $15 an hour he made on the assembly line, and now his 17-year-old daughter is thinking about joining the army to pay for college.

Very depressing too.

If AhNold becomes govenor, California won't get their money back from the Enron Scandal. Bummer.


From Greg Palast.

WTF!?

It's been a long two-and-a-half years, and I may be suffering from severe outrage overload... but this made me punch a fucking wall.

The leak of a CIA operative's name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure, Bush administration officials said yesterday.

The company's identity, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, became public because it appeared in Federal Election Commission records on a form filled out in 1999 by Valerie Plame, the case officer at the center of the controversy, when she contributed $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign.

Know who did it? A certain troll-faced freak at CNN. Fuck you, Robert Novak.

The name of the CIA front company was broadcast yesterday by Novak, the syndicated journalist who originally identified Plame. Novak, highlighting Wilson's ties to Democrats, said on CNN that Wilson's "wife, the CIA employee, gave $1,000 to Gore and she listed herself as an employee of Brewster-Jennings & Associates."

"There is no such firm, I'm convinced," he continued. "CIA people are not supposed to list themselves with fictitious firms if they're under a deep cover -- they're supposed to be real firms, or so I'm told. Sort of adds to the little mystery."

I want the severed heads of these fucking traitors on pikes. Now. This is not a request.

Are they trying to give a certain segment of the population convulsions? I do not understand this.

The convulsions will be entertaining, though.


UPDATE: not real. Idiot freepers will still have convulsions, but that's because they're idiots with no brains. And it'll still be funny to me, especially 'cause it's not real.

Comedy of Errors

While we continue to dither with the international community over whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction or not, North Korea ramps it up a bit. Actually, they've been ramping it up. They seem to be saying "Bring it on, bitches."


Duck and cover. Those civil defense drills in the '60s had it right.


I'm also willing to bet the farm this country was/is involved, as they're complicit in lots of recent horrors.

Oh yea, that nation that's complicit in lotsa horrors just tested a nuclear capable missile. Fantabulous.

I get the distinctly odd feeling that this week really is a really good dream, and none of it is real. It's just too weird.

Especially this (via Billmon.)

The Skeptic has retired. It was a very good blog...I hope he sticks around.

Could this week get any more bizarre?


Not that I'm complaining...he IS a nasty fat ass-cysted bastard who deserves worse.

Some Thoughts


All this talk the Republicans are doing...saying "no special counsel".....for some reason...seems kinda cowardly.

I don't understand.

A special prosecutor investigated Clinton's penis and its indescretions.

Yet, no special prosecutor can investigate someone or someones treason?

Bizarre.

As a Philly sports fan, I feel that Rush Limbaugh should be invited to sit in the 700-level (or it's new equivilant) at Lincoln Financial Field and spout off his . . . ideas to the crowd there.

Remember, these are the people who threw ice balls at SANTA CLAUS.

It'd be a bloody end, that's for sure.

You know it's big news when the Washington Times is out for blood.

Or, as the French say, Le merde a frappé le ventilateur.


(Please feel free to correct my french, it's been almost 5 years since I've had any instruction.)

Wonderful news.


Just wonderful.


Wonderful. Absolutely fantabulous.

BUMP!


I bumped this for obvious reasons.

Holy Fucking SHIT! This is BIG NEWS!


It's even bigger news because the Press knows who the treasonous bastard is!

Watching this will be better than sex. Really. Someone's about to go "BOOM" in a big way.

Stay tuned to media outlets, and the incomparable Agonist.


Pass the popcorn, guys. This one's gonna be a doozy!

I already linked to this in a sarcastic post below, but I read it again and I'm all kinds of angry and annoyed. Probably because the event I was supposed to work tonight got canceled without my foreknowledge so I lost $70 right there, but gotta direct it somewhere otherwise I'll just grind my teeth in my sleep. And this did annoy me earlier in the week.

I'm not going to say what I really want to say(which has a lot more foul language than this upcoming rant). Instead, I'm yet again going to offer my challenge.

Those of you who are so indignified by the idea of gay people getting married and getting all the rights afforded to you, explain your freaking self. Why is it okay to discriminate? I already forsee the moral argument. What do you base those morals on? Leviticus 18:22? Any scientific studies you wanna point out explaining why gay people can't have the same bloody rights you do?

I bloody dare you to answer my challenge.

Okay, I'm angry. I'll acknowledge that. I just don't understand why people can get around using the argument that "you who oppose my bigotry are bigoted." I'd have to look that up, but is that circular logic?

Wonderful News from the Potemkin Village that is America

Boxcutters are STILL a threat, two years and two weeks later. Way to go guys!

The US Poverty rate increases for the SECOND YEAR IN A ROW! Yay!

The UN staff is leaving Iraq. George, you got your wish! Yay!


I'm feelin' good, how about you?


or in the words of Bill O'Atrios: Shut up, just Shut UP!

This is so amazingly and mind-bogglingly stupid I can't even think straight. (Via the Agonist).

Maryland had this to say about the Diebold Voting machines. It wasn't pretty.


Yet, they're going to USE THEM ANYWAY.

"For two years, Baltimore County has warned, `Iceberg ahead!' and now independent experts have warned that it's a gigantic iceberg," Mr. Smith said. "Maryland should not say, `Damn the iceberg, full speed ahead.' "

What the fuck?!

Interesting....


I had noticed this when I saw a map of the outbreaks. Areas that had drought had major outbreaks of West Nile...acutally it was as obvious as day to me, I'm glad someone else saw it.

Guess what gay people, you're intolerant bigots!

STRIKE WATCH

There's brewing tension in the SSHE. The professors may go on strike. Before you jump to conclusions about money and whatnot, I'm firmly on the side of the professors in this one. The Management of the SSHE has all receieved raises (including Judy Hample, State System Chancellor--hers was 10% at least from what I'm hearing) while professors have all received...well...shit. Pay freezes.

This story is still developing. Early polling shows the students behind the professors, as of now. It's gonna get ugly in the Keystone State, sadly.

I'll have more soon.

Fantabulous.

Four government regulations completed on Monday and a half-dozen more in the works will provide federal money for religion-oriented programs run by people President Bush (news - web sites) has dubbed America's "neighborhood healers."

Cabinet members met with the president at the White House to discuss ways agencies are eliminating barriers that have kept "faith-based" groups from obtaining federal grants to help people in need.

While the idea of creating federally funded agencies to help people is a good one, I'd like to see this with a little less "God." Honestly.

I'd also like to see: any Muslim groups? Jewish groups? Buddhist groups? Shito? Hindu? Pagan? Wiccan? New-Age? They can help people too, right?

Just curious.

If this comes to pass I am never ever EVER flying again. Ever. Ever. Ever. Never ever.

Speaking of contracting out, an administration move to privatize air traffic control at 69 airports has sparked opposition from labor groups, which contend it would compromise safety.

The administration had proposed 71 airports, but House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska), who supports the effort, got someone to strike the two Alaska airports on the list.

Young, on an Alaska cable TV show a week ago, acknowledged the move generated some heat.

"Of course the criticism of myself," he said, "is that I exempted the state of Alaska." But there were ample reasons for that, he said, ticking off a number of them.

"Lastly," Young said, "my hotel room is on the top floor of the Sheraton, and the airplanes take right off towards my hotel room. Every morning I look out and there's one coming right at me. It's an interesting experience and I want to make sure everything is done right in that field."

This identity thing seems to be bigger than I thought. I need to explore this further.


I gotta shine some light at this post, as she says exactly how I feel in much harsher terms that I generally can muster.

I'm noticing some interesting Isabel aftermath. The states hardest hit can't seem to provide services. In addition, despite the fact that Isabel weakenend considerably, Virginia and Maryland got hit very hard and it looks like neither state was well prepared. In fact, some are arguing that deregulation may be a cause of the massive power outages. At Isabel's height, some eight million people from North Carolina northward through New York (and even some in Ontario) lost power. This from a storm that was relatively weak (winds onshore were 100mph, with scattered unconfirmed reports of 115 to 120mph along Hatteras Island.) The recent drought from last summer and this summer's near constant rain weakened a lot of trees. If another storm comes through, I suspect a lot of the trees I see when I look out my window will come over. They look fairly weak.

Delaware, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania were largely spared although several hundred thousand lost power in Pennsylvania. However let this be a warning: one of these days sometime very soon, we're gonna get smacked down like they do down south.

It's beginning to catch on. Fundamentalist religion of any sort is really dangerous. Sisyphus notes India's BJP.

I was so busy caring about important things that I must have missed the "news" that J-Lo and Ben broke up. With Isabel blowing down trees and flooding several major East Coast cites and the President and his boys (and girls) continuing to lie to the country and get away with it I was just too busy to keep up on those "celebrities" . . .

. . .and that's all I'm going to say about that.

Meanwhile, I have yet to hear a good explanation as to why THIS is a good thing.

Under the Bush plan, the Department of Veterans Affairs would disqualify about 1.5 million veterans, two-thirds of those now in the VA disability program.

In Kipling's day, at least, the civilians and the government would wait until the killing fields had been quieted before deciding to act like ingrates and treat the disabled troops as a needless expense.

The Bush administration is trying to cheat the veterans while continuing to send today's troops back into action, all at the same time, thereby creating more casualties and new disabled veterans who can be denied benefits. And don't think the troops don't know.

Anybody? Anyone? C'mon....defend it. Oh, that's right. YOU CAN'T.

Here's what you can buy for $87 billion.



(found via The Agonist)

It's official! The Next President of the United States Of America....Gen. Wesley Clark!

This is kinda neat.

Yar.....

You are The Cap'n!

Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some slit the throats of any man that stands between them and the mantle of power. You never met a man you couldn't eviscerate. Not that mindless violence is the only avenue open to you - but why take an avenue when you have complete freeway access? You are the definitive Man of Action. You are James Bond in a blousy shirt and drawstring-fly pants. Your swash was buckled long ago and you have never been so sure of anything in your life as in your ability to bend everyone to your will. You will call anyone out and cut off their head if they show any sign of taking you on or backing down. You cannot be saddled with tedious underlings, but if one of your lieutenants shows an overly developed sense of ambition he may find more suitable accommodations in Davy Jones' locker. That is, of course, IF you notice him. You tend to be self absorbed - a weakness that may keep you from seeing enemies where they are and imagining them where they are not.

What's Yer Inner Pirate?
brought to you by The Official Talk Like A Pirate Web Site. Arrrrr!

(it's talk like a pirate day)

Bye Bye Isabel

We had sustained winds near 40 mph and one lone gust to above 50 at 4am. I, of course, slept through it.

It looks like the campus survived rather well. No one was killed, power remained on (although it flickered), and the damage is limited.

There are tree limbs down everywhere. I took a lot of pictures. I only found one tree that snapped in two during last nights high winds.

We were really lucky here in Millersville. Had Isabel made landfall with 130mph winds instead of 100 mph winds, or had come further north, it'd be a different story.

Playing football during a hurricane is fun. I recommend everyone go do it.


Winds gusting past 40mph right now.


Posts and pictures in the morning.

Friedman has either lost his goddamn mind or is just displaying that he's just a hack.

HURRICANE UPDATE

Rumors are flying all over campus on whether they will lock the dorm residents in. The campus is effectively closed overnight as Isabel approaches. We've had a lot of rain this summer, so flooding (possibly serious) is expected overnight and into tomorrow as the worst of the storm hits.

Computer labs and the library will close at 9pm, tonight.

Pennsylvania under State of Emergency, joining Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia and three other states. New Jersey to follow at 4pm.

For what its worth, the Hurricane Center's forecasted landfall has only shifted by at most 200 miles over the last five-six days. That is excellent. They called this track on Saturday and Isabel has gone exactly where they said it would. Whoever says that meteorologists are full of shit are full of shit themselves, as the NHC gets a A+ in my book for calling this nearly five days ago. Now, all they need to work on is intensity. When they do that, it'll be great.

Andrew Sullivan, of course, is an idiot. He added his comments, which you can go read at Atrios. I won't link to someone so stupid.

Identity

There's not much more I can say about miss Isabel except that it will probably rain, a lot, and there will probably be some wind. I think it's time to move on, well for me, at least. Until the pictures come out.

I'm currently drafting an editorial for next week's paper that will read something like this: my ethnicity is only a tiny part of my identity. What does this mean?

While I was in storm mode, I seem to have missed out on a discussion on "What it means to be a black blogger?" over at Promethus 6 and other sites I visit from time to time. I thought about it overnight, along with thoughts about racism and stuff like that, and decided that for me, it means very little. As I said before, my ethnicity has very little to do with my identity as a whole. I don't wake up in the morning and think "hmm, I think I'll act black today," although that's not what this is about. I suspect I came to this conclusion after being really tired of being talked down to, being asked for the "black" perspective, wondering if that rude lady at the mall was a bigot, wondering if that frat that slighted me was doing so based on skin color, people wondering if I'm in the remedial program for low-income students (aside about that, it's for low-income first gen. college students that IS disporportionally minority, but conservatives on this campus continually scream about affirmative action when the program is NOT an affirmative action program) and so on and so on. I just want to be considered and seen as a normal, All-American boy! Is that so wrong to ask for?

I'm interested in your thoughts.

Non Related News

This is ridiculous.

A strategy paper being considered at the highest levels in Riyadh sets out three options:

· To acquire a nuclear capability as a deterrent;

· To maintain or enter into an alliance with an existing nuclear power that would offer protection;

· To try to reach a regional agreement on having a nuclear-free Middle East.

I'm moving to a cabin in the mountains somewhere. Again, what utter bullshit that "End of History"-We're-Saved-From-Nuclear-Armaggedon that was.

ROUNDUP

Isabel's outer clouds overspread the area just before sunset.

States of Emergency in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. All DC public schools closed until Monday. All public schools closed until Monday in Delaware. Philadelphia public schools are on a half-day schedule Friday.

I've got my flashlight ready just in case Isabel passes closer to us. It looks like it will move further west, but as of 10pm it hasn't turned back to the northwest. It was still headed further north toward the Chesapeake Bay.

Lots of rain coming.

States of Emergency declared in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Delaware may follow suit tomorrow, if it hasn't yet.

The hurricane watch DOES include areas up to (but not including) Washington DC and its southeastern suburbs in Maryland. Hope my dad's ready.

Isabel weakened as it sucked in some dry air and reorganized itself, but is strengtheing again.



WEATHER FACTOID
4 years ago today, Hurricane Floyd slammed North Carolina and points northward, dropping as much as a foot of rain on areas near Philadelphia.

100 years ago today was the last hurricane landfall in the state of New Jersey. That storm was a Category 1 and came ashore north of Atlantic City with winds near 80mph.

What I've Missed Since I've Been in Storm Mode


*Whoa...no more recall? Oh wait, Wait....recall? California gets weirder and weirder.


*WESLEY CLARK TO RUN! YEA BABY! RUN! I'm EXTREMELY excited about this.


*North Korea blusters. We turn our sights toward Iran instead. I suppose this is evidence that the adults are in charge. Meanwhile, it's blatently obvious who the threat is.

As I'm bouncing in and out of storm mode, I may go back to Isabel coverage until the storm passes or fizzles or I get bored with it. For better, thoughtful, timely, and global news coverage, check out Sean-Paul Kelly's The Agonist and his excellent team of correspondents and reporters. Much better than cable news, which is all about performance anyway and not news reporting.

Sorry for the lack of updates. I'm an editor on the school paper, and that takes up much of my time on Mondays.


Depending on Isabel's track, my location (between Harrisburg and Philadelphia, closer to Harrisburg though) may get heavy rain, or heavy rain and winds gusting to hurricane force. Either way, I'm ready. The digital cameras have been charged. There will be a lot of picture taking. I hope my bandwidth holds up.

I'm very excited, actually. Nervous, because a lot of property that isn't mine is gonna get wrecked, but excited, because storms excite me. I'm the type of guy that would chase twisters if he could. Sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed meteorology, but I think it was the semester of high-level math that turned me away. It's still a major hobby of mine (forecasting). One day I'll be good at it. I'm just getting there now.

I'll update in the morning. Watches should be up by the time I post again.

ALL EYES SOUTH

East coast residents from Cape Hatteras northward to Cape Cod really need to prepare now. The entire mid-Atlantic is in this storm's future sights.

Watches and warnings will likely go up tonight or tomorrow morning for a significant stretch of the East Coast.

The Hurricane Center's future track takes Isabel just west of Cape Hatteras and inland over Virginia and Pennsylvania. As the storm will be fast moving, much of its force may be maintained well inland.

Model forecasts bring the storm onshore from as far south as Myrtle Beach to as far north as Atlantic City.

For more coverage on the approach of Hurricane Isabel and where she may strike, here's some independent meteorologists I frequent and who are quite good:

WXRISK
Millennium Weather
Tropical Update
NEMAS

Also, the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Accuweather out of State College, PA , and The Weather Channel are all resources that can be used as this very dangerous and very powerful hurricane approaches the Eastern Seaboard. The National Weather Service is another tool. It is predicted to weaken slightly, but it could still pack a very significant punch when it strikes the coast.

Please stay tuned to your media and emergency management officials for any information. Oh yes..those emergency kits you were supposed to make for Homeland Security: They can be used for natural disasters too.

I'll be moving and updating this post during the coming days, as this is going to be a major event.

For the State of New Jersey, here's where you can find out where to go and how to get there if Isabel makes a strike on NJ.

For coastal Delaware

For Maryland (Ocean City)

For Virginia

For North Carolina

More Evac maps here.

Long Island Storm Surge maps can be read here, along with an account of the last truly major 'cane to strike New England.

Stay tuned to the National Hurricane Center and media outlets on this story that continues to change by the hour.


UPDATE: Flooding rains in the Philadelphia western suburbs.

UPDATE: At 11AM, CNN now reporting that there may be a Navy and Air Force evacuation of aircraft and ships away from the East Coast due to the approaching hurricane.

For people coming inland, Millersville has an inn. I'll find out how many rooms are available.

Isabel is affecting the market: Insurance stocks are down in anticipation of heavy property damage. CNN reporting this now.

100 Years ago Tuesday is the anniversary of the last direct hurricane strike on New Jersey. Just a factoid.

This is this blog's first birthday. Happy Birthday, blog!

Things You Should Have


HURRICANE SUPPLY LIST

Flashlights and extra bulbs
Battery-operated radio
Fully-charged, battery-operated lanterns (Candles and kerosene lanterns can be fire hazards if not used properly.)
Extra batteries
Toilet paper
Matches
Clock (wind-up or battery-operated)
Plastic garbage bags
Working fire extinguishers
Scissors
Clean change of clothes, rain gear, sturdy swamp boots
An inexpensive, rabbit-ears television antenna to use if cable goes out
Map of the area to assist in evacuations


Stock Up on the Following Foods and Beverages

Bottled water
Ice
Shelf-package juice and milk boxes
Canned and powdered milk
Beverages (powdered or canned, fruit juices, instant coffee, tea)
Prepared foods (canned soups, beef, spaghetti, tuna, chicken, ham, corned beef hash, fruit cocktail, packaged pudding)
Canned vegetables and fruits
Dried fruits
Snacks (crackers, cookies, hard candy, nuts)
Snack spreads (peanut butter, cheese spreads, jelly)
Cereals
Raw vegetables
Sugar, salt, pepper
Bread
Dry and canned pet food
Extra formula, baby food

Medical Supplies

(Drugstores will be mobbed just before the storm and closed for days after. Keep a two-week supply of prescription drugs.)

Medic-alert tags
Insect-repellent sprays and candles
Feminine hygiene items
Sunscreen
Soap
First-aid kit and first-aid handbook
A supply of any prescription drugs
Extra over-the-counter medicine (for colds, allergies, cough)
Children's medicines
Adhesive tape
Cotton-tipped swabs
Antiseptic solution
Sterile rolls, bandages
Ear drops
Thermometer
Tweezers
Needles
Disinfectant

Emergency Management Links

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Delaware

Maryland

American Red Cross