Make an Emergency Preparedness Plan for Your family Today!

There can be a lot of chaos in a disaster situation. Infrastructure is immediately affected. There may be no transportation, food, water, electricity, or communcations in a major disaster. This will hamper the efforts by first responders – police, fireman, and emergency medical personnel. That’s why you need to have an emergency preparedness plan for your family.

When your family has their own emergency preparedness plan, they will not be dependent on outside sources for help. This will allow you to survive on your own for several days, weeks, and sometimes months after a disaster has occurred.

The main things you should have are food, water, medical supplies, clothing, and shelter. If you are in an area where you can stay put, that will probably be your best option. Having these supplies will make the difference between being comfortable and being miserable in an emergency.

You should also consider have 72-hour survival kits for each member of your family. You should keep one of these kits in each of your vehicles. These are good for three days of food, which in a lot of cases is enough time for emergency help to reach your area.

When it comes to emergency survival food, freeze dried food is king. It’s lightweight, delicious, and requires less water than other preparedness foods. Mountain House Food is regarded as the finest available. The meals are delicious, consistent from one batch to the next, and easy. Check out the Mountain House Freeze Dried 72-hour Emergency Meal Kit.

Remember, when you prepare for your family ahead of time, you’ll save them from misery during an emergency. If a disaster never falls on you, you can incorporate the food and emergency supplies into your daily life.

Store Today, Survive Tomorrow™.

Preppers Are Preparing For The Worst

In a recent article from the Newsweek website, Jessica Bennet takes a look at regular people who are preparing for the worst. They are called Preppers and they adopt a Survivalism Lite kind of approach.

The article also touches on how organizations from FEMA on down are sending a new message to the public, “People need to be prepared to take care of themselves for a few days until help can arrive.”

Quoting FEMA head Craig Fugate, “I encourage all Americans to take some simple steps to make their families more prepared.”

Jonathan Aiken, a spokesman for the American Red Cross, goes on to state, “I think people have come to realize that organizations like ours can’t always be everywhere we need to be as quickly as we need to be.”

This article is worth reading. Here’s the link:

Survivalism Lite

States Not Prepared to Handle a Large Swine Flu Epidemic

A report written by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has revealed that the H1N1 flu outbreak has exposed serious underlying gaps in states’ ability to respond to public health emergencies.

The report titled Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism concluded that if the outbreak had been more severe, the “nation’s public health safety system could have been stretched beyond the breaking point.”

Editor’s Note: Yet another reason that families should start their own preparedness program.

Here is a link to the Report:

Ready or Not?