Emergency Preparedness Fair- Knoxville

[Guest bkelm18]

Emergency Preparedness Fair promises info, demos for times of disaster » Knoxville News Sentinel

Looks kinda interesting.

[analog_kidd]

Cool. Just put it on my calendar.

[Sandman]

Hey thanks for the link! I will be going. Maybe the "East Tennessee Prepared" group started by big baby can all go as our first little outing.

[RobertNashville]

Anytime you can gain some knowledge and learn what other people are doing/thinking it's a good thing...I'd make the trip over but I'll be in Atlanta that weekend.

[Guest bkelm18]

Maybe the "East Tennessee Prepared" group started by big baby can all go as our first little outing.

I'm down if nothing else comes up.

[Mike.357]

depending on stuff I might go

[analog_kidd]

Reminder that this show is this weekend.

[Guest PapaB]

So, anyone go?

Sounds like a worthwhile idea. I'd like to see something similar all over TN.

Any reports?

[analog_kidd]

I went, but was very disappointed. For me it was mostly Knoxville saying "Look at us, see how prepared we are"? They had a Sherrif copter there, some ambulances, firefighters, etc. Not that that is bad, I was very impressed with all the cool stuff Knoxville has, but I was looking for more personal survival stuff. They had an inside area set up with maybe 15 tables for vendors. I saw the Blood bank, some investing company, a whole table advertising Glenn Beck's next speaking tour, and a few people selling food products. Of all the tables, I saw about three with things that I was expecting to see. One had a family water filtration device, one had a table full of bug out bag or emergency box type items, one had emergency food products.

At least I got some nifty firefighter hats for the grandkids ;-)

[z90HD]

I would have to agree with the analog-kidd, I have actually learned more on tgo than what they had to offer yesterday.

But I did learn that you can take a new quart size paint can and stuff a decored roll of toilet paper in it and fill it with 1 and1/4 bottle of 70% or better of rubbing alcohol and have a light and heat source for up to 10 hours. That was pretty cool.