Have disaster kit ready.

We are working on our family disaster plan. Right now we all live about 20 minutes from each other and so we are trying to figure out a common meeting place in case a natural disaster occurs.

We do already have our out of town contact determined, since apparently in cases of emergency it is easier to call out of town than locally.

I am getting a disaster kit for Christmas, so I’m just about able to cross this off.

I believe. We had a speaker about this at our last Soroptomist meeting and I realized (again) that this is something I need to make a priority.

We aren’t going to be blown away by a tornado or hurricane but we have had some severe earthquakes just a town away and flooding in the area.

because I havent some much as compiled one item for my kit. Honestly I havent even gone to the website yet. I have a bunch of camping gear so I would be okay for some things, but I go to the grocery store every day because I don’t ever think about buying for multiple days let alone extra for an emergency. FOR SHAME!

I have this 3days3ways.org pamphlet that I need to work on.

I had built up a disaster kit, kept it in a locked bin in our back yard, away from the house. A year or two later we opened it back up and found such a foul stench. The water that we had stored in the bottom that were in plastic containers – well the containers broke down, everything was soaked, covered in mold. I suddenly knew what the Katrina victims must have felt like returning to their homes. So instead we just shelled out the money for the Red Cross kits and packs of water, now stored in a section of our garage away from the house.

I have 2 kits complete. One for my role on the community emergency response team and the other for the household. Basic camping stuff & medkit. I will be supplementing it along the way… well worth having for piece of mind.

I have an old kit with very sparse thing in it, but I heard there is a website www.ready.gov, that lists things to put in a kit.