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PRINTABLE FLYERS FOR DISTRIBUTION DURING Y2K DISRUPTIONS

I am thinking that most people will not do much in the way of preparing for y2k disruptions. The flyers linked on this page are for distribution during y2k disruptions (they can be useful in other emergencies too). Download them and copy in advance. They are linked on this page in two forms: Adobe Acrobat and plain text. Formatting directions for the plain text files as given below the links. The Adobe documents will require the Adobe reader, which is available free from Adobe. USE YOUR BROWSER's BACK BUTTON TO RETURN TO THIS PAGE.

#1. Lights and Warmth Text ... Adobe Acrobat (2 printed pages)

#2. Hygiene, Trash, Disposal of Human Wastes Text ... Adobe Acrobat (2 printed pages)

#3. Food preparation and Safety Text ... Adobe Acrobat (2 printed pages)

#4. Water Purification Text ... Adobe Acrobat (1 printed page)

#5. Building community during a major disaster Text ... Adobe Acrobat 2 printed pages.

#6. Disaster preparations on a limited budget Text ...Adobe Acrobat 2 pages

#7. Community food security projects during a major disaster Text ... Adobe Acrobat 2 pages

NEW! Family Food Security. This flyer contains the articles on shopping and stocking your pantry from the Better Times Cookbook and Almanac of Useful Information for Poor People. This adobe acrobat file creates a two sided three fold brochure. The back panel is blank, so that you could add local information (such as the location of a food pantry, or community garden association, or a St. Vincent de Paul or Salvation Army program.

Previews of soon-coming attractions: 8. Disaster preparations on not-so-limited budgets, 9. Indoor gardening under lights, 10. Emergency power systems, 11. Preparing an emergency shelter in place in the event of a serious hazardous material disaster in your community.

The amount of text in these flyers is designed to fit on one or two pieces of 8-1/2 X 11" paper formatted as follows:

Margins: ½ inch top, bottom, left, right

Type size: 10 pt for body text, 16 pt for headlines.

Font: Body text, Times Roman; headlines, Albertus Extra Bold or Arial bold.

Orientation: Portrait or landscape. If landscape orientation is used, the text will typically fit arranged in 3 columns, with 1 inch spacing between each column,.

Other: Indent each paragraph 3 spaces. Insert a blank line between each paragraph. The copyright and free distribution permission may be done in 8 point type.

HOW TO COPY: In Netscape and Microsoft, click on "Edit" then "Select All". Click "Edit", then "copy". Click "Edit," then "paste" into a new document in a word processor or publishing program. You can also use the "save as" command under "File" to save the page.

USE YOUR BROWSER'S BACK BUTTON TO RETURN TO THIS PAGE.

The flyers are copyright (1999) by Robert Waldrop. Permission is hereby granted to download and print any amount of copies for free distribution (tell your friends!). The text may not be incorporated into publications that are for sale (such as books, magazines, or newspapers) without the permission of the author. If you want to leave something out, that's fine -- as long as it is not a safety warning. (E.g., flyers to be distributed in Miami don't need info about how to make a solar snow melter.) If you want to add something, write your own flyer, please. You can add your own name or organizational affiliation, or how to find a designated local heat/warmth shelter, soup kitchen, or other emergency resource.

I would also like to acknowledge that kerosene heaters are controversial, and I have received some email encouraging me to delete references to them. In my own personal experience, confirmed by my research, kerosene can be used with complete safety for heating and cooking. Further, they are a fact of life in urban ecologies, especially in poor and working class neighborhoods. Many people in such areas struggle to keep their utilities on, and it is often not possible to have "all four" (electricity, gas, water, and telephone). So the phone goes first, and second is usually the gas. Many people thus depend on kerosene heaters for economic reasons, and they manage to use them quite safely. It is not unusual in such neighborhoods for gas stations to have kerosene pumps. So this is why kerosene stays. They are for distribution everywhere, and that includes neighborhoods where kerosene is an important resource.

Published to cyberspace by the Archbishop Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House, Oklahoma City.

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These are very good. Thank you! I believe you have saved lives here.

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