How Prepared Are You?

While reading on one of my fave blogs today she made a post about her Sunday school class yesterday.  They were talking about emergency preparedness.  The instructor asked them several questions.  She listed them on her blog post.  They were really good questions.  A few of them I had to think about.  Here they are:

• Do you know where your 72-hour kit is and how to use it?
• Do you have a kit for each member of your family?
• Do your kids know what is in it?
• Is the 72-hour kit up to date?
• Do you own a battery-powered radio?
• In an emergency, do you know where to find emergency information for our area?
• Do you have a family emergency plan?
• Have you practiced it recently?
• Do you carry a paper list of contacts with a phone number of someone at least 100 miles away for everyone to contact?
• Do you have an emergency kit in your car? In your office?
• How long will it take for you to walk home from work?
• Do you know where you will evacuate?
• Can you bring your 72-hour kit to an evacuation center if needed? Or can you stay home and shelter in place?
• Do you own a shovel?
• The government can bring emergency drinking water in trucks, but when they do, what kind of container to you own to carry the water in?
• Do you own a tent or travel trailer?
• Do you have 2 gallons of water per day per person? 1 gallon for drinking and 1 gallon for sanitary use?
• Is your hot water heater strapped to the wall?
• Do you know how to shut off your water so you can use it?
• Do you know how to shut off the gas? Only shut it off if you smell gas.

Now is the time to get your 72 hr kits together.  There are different ways you can do it.  You can assemble them your self or you can buy pre-assembled kits.  For my family I have pieced them together.  If I cold go back AND I could afford it I would buy pre-assembled kits and add the personal items to it.  As I have built our kits over the years I have never felt that they have been complete.  They have been a huge source of stress. 

Whether you decide to piece yours together or buy pre-assembled kits I have what you need.  We have all sorts of different items that you can build your kit with and we also have several different kits to choose from.  Click here to go to my website.  Click on the buy tab and then on the left side you will see the different options for emergency kits and supplies.

Thinking about those questions, how prepared are you?  I know my family will be working on a few of those in the coming weeks!