Yes, it has made me go back through what we have, where it's stored and what we need to get. Several reminders have been:
1) Materials to air-seal the house if necessary. Clear Plastic, duct tape and a map of the house outlining every that needs to be sealed.
2) Air filtration if external excersions become necessary. I have fiber dust masks, but nothing in terms of a proper air filtration mask
3) Potassium Iodine - though I do have iodine based water purification tablets
4) Expand water storage capacity (was already planned) Planning to increase from a 40 gallon pressure reserve tank, adding 2 116gal pressure reserve tanks. Since I need about half the storage capacity to maintain sufficient pressure to get water to the second floor, that gives me about 140 gal of continually refreshed water storage after the well pump stops.
5) Look for (not even sure if anyone makes them) storage tanks that would sit in-line with the toilet tank fill line and would be located directly above the toilet so that, in the event of a loss of water or pump power, the resevoir would provide a number of flushes via gravity feed.
6) Expansion of oil lamps and lamp oil storage.
7) Look into possibility of adding a second 275 gal home heating oil tank linked to current home heating oil tank. - If anyone knows any legal / zoning / permitting laws regarding having 2 275 gallong home heating oil tanks with a single fill pipe in a residential home in New Hampshire, I'd be interested.
regarding some of the coments here:
Most radiation is spread through radioactive dust made up of very heavy (dense) particles. If you have an outside pool, make sure you have a pool cover that can completely cover the pool and at the first sign of a possible nuclear incident, cover the pool and put something in the middle of the pool to elevate it above the edges so rain will wash any dust that collects on top of the cover off.
If you need to access the water, run a hose to the pool under the cover and use a pump to remove the water (minimize exposure of the water to the stmosphere) Attached the hose to a float so that the end of the hose is 6-12 inches below the surface - don't draw water from the top (material that hasn't broken the water tension) or bottom (material that has sank) of the pool
If you can, cover the hose, again making sure the cover is raised to direct rain water away from the pool.
Allow pumped water to stand for a minimum 24 hours (48 hours even better) in a holding container. Ideally the bottom 2-3 inches of the holding container is open honeycomb, screen mesh or gravel to minimize disturbing settled particles when you draw water. Skim the surface of the water to remove any floating material.
At this point, the water should contain almost no radioative particles / fall-out and should be safe to boil. (boiling water with radioative contaimints makes a bad situation worse) If fuel to boil is at a premium, add iodine, allow to stand and filter.
Rain-water collectors should have similar bottom filler to described above and allowed to stand. Again, drawing from the middle of the rain barrel will minimize contaminants in the drawn water.
If you have an outside garden, you want to cover it with clear plastic as well to minimize radioative dust contamination of vegitables and soil and build a surface water barricade to direct surface water (which will be contaminated with dust) around the garden.