Planning


Planning

A great place to begin preparations is in the Planning category of emergency preparedness.  Why?  Because it costs nothing.  The only investment you have to make is the time to think it through, write it down and then to prepare your family.  There are several components to planning and it can take some time to […]

January 5, 2018

A Plan for the New Year and Taxes


Comfort, Comms, Cooking, Finance, First-Aid, Food, General Information, Light, Lists, Planning, Power, Sanitation, Shelter, Warmth, Water

With a new year upon us it’s a great time to start all those plans you’ve thought about a couple dozen times of starting your food storage and emergency preparedness planning.  Though I love the holidays, I have to say, I love a good New Years celebration.  It’s the feeling of newness that is contagious. […]

January 1, 2018

Breaking it down…Categories of Emergency Preparedness


Comfort, Comms, Cooking, Downloads, Finance, First-Aid, General Information, Light, Planning, Power, Sanitation, Shelter, Warmth, Water

Specifics are always a good thing.  As we define each of the 13 areas of preparedness we can better create the list of items we need to achieve total preparedness.  It at least provides a good road map through our journey to get fully prepared.  For today the definitions stand as given below, but I […]

November 28, 2017

12+2=14


Comfort, Comms, Cooking, Downloads, Finance, First-Aid, Food, General Information, Light, Planning, Power, Sanitation, Shelter, Warmth, Water

Several weeks ago I received my copy of the seasonal magazine from Emergency Preparedness.  I opened it up and skimmed it’s pages.  Among the usual product features, something even better caught my attention.  It was a 2 page spread that they called the “12 Areas of Preparedness“.   Listed, they are: 1. Water 2. Warmth 3. […]

November 12, 2017