To keep your family busy, comfortable and connected, have portable flashlights, radios, TVs, electronic games and personal MP3 players with complete charges on hand. Portable DVD players and board games can help entertain the entire family.  Keep chargeable items like cell phones fully charged. Assemble school learning supplies to keep the mind healthy, too. Free Children’s Learning and Activity Books can be ordered by dialing 1-800-99-LYSOL. Portable outdoor grills are always helpful should the power be interrupted.

If possible keep all vehicle gas tanks full. Additionally, homes with wells should maintain a supply of water for manual toilet flushing should power loss render the pump useless. 1.5 gallons of water poured directly into the bowl will flush it completely.

Should an outbreak occur, two weeks of isolation should be adequate, however, the longer one can live segregated, the better. The following is a formula for maintaining a level of family comfort for a week for a family of four. For additional time simply multiply the supplies by weeks expected

Supply basics per person per day based upon the 2005 USDA food pyramid are as follows:

	FOOD GROUPS	30 YR OLD MALE	30 YR OLD FEMALE	8 YR OLD MALE	8 YR OLD FEMALE	TOTAL / WEEK
GRAINS		9 OZ.	6 OZ.	5 OZ.	5 OZ.	175 OZ.
VEGETABLES		3.5 CUPS	2.5 CUPS	2 CUPS	2 CUPS	70 CUPS
FRUITS		2 CUPS	2 CUPS	1.5 CUPS	1.5 CUPS	42 CUPS
MILK		3 CUPS	3 CUPS	3 CUPS	3 CUPS	84 CUPS
MEAT/BEANS		6.5 OZ.	5.5 OZ.	5 OZ.	5 OZ.	154
OIL		8 TSP	6 TSP	5 TSP	5 TSP	168 CONVRT
WATER		1 GAL.	1 GAL.	1 GAL.	1 GAL.	28 GAL.