Clean up and recovery are requiring a lot of different supplies. Here are some that I’m glad I had so I could help right away:
• Disposable gloves for handling flooded clothes and other items
• Laundry detergent
• Laundry sanitizer for clothes that can’t be bleached
• Soap (I did a lot of hand washing)
• Garbage bags
• Antibiotic ointment and bandages for injured cleaning crews (keep some in your purse, too)
• Extra cleaning rags (I found a large bag of shop cloths at Costco a while back)
• Hard copy files of flood recovery instructions
• Food storage
• Recipes to use food storage so I don’t need to go buy anything when there is a request for food. I can start cooking/baking immediately. It also means I don’t have to go to the store at all (I won’t restock until several weeks from the 25th. That will give the stores time to stock back up and I won’t be taking food someone else needs.)
• Foil pans to take food in. Then they don’t need to be returned.
For more information on recovering after a flood, go to Disaster Recovery.
