National preparedness month

Posted by: Kent Arnspiger (3) on Thu 23 Sep 2010 | Word Count: 670 | Comments (0)

September is national preparedness month, and is promoted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). They have a very informative site with some great tips on prepared for http://www.Ready.gov. We help this site with a link from our homepage and with this article to help you and your loved ones in getting the word out and our customers to help their preparedness planning to promote.

Learned from previous natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, is waiting for someone to ensure you are not the best strategy to survive from large-scale emergency situations. A need to plan, prepare and stay alert in anticipation of storms and events to be self dependent and safe.

Planning can start making a list of the needs and wishes that you would like to have on hand in the event of an emergency situation. You should also plan on or you will remain in your home and the event from weather or if you need to evacuate to another location more secure. Both options will depend on your location, the size of the event, the survivability of your structure and the lifetime of the emergency situation. If you plan on staying at your current location, you need to plan to have enough resources such as drinking water and non-perishable food to last for several weeks at a minimum. It is recommended that each person at least one litre of drinking water per day and at least 2,500 calories per day in easily prepared survival food.

Other considerations to include in your plan are the safety of your location, adequate shelter and heat or cooling, depending on the time of the year. Safety, the protection of the emergency situation and potential of everyone who might want to do you harm. You accommodation must secure enough to protect you against the elements and to protect your gear survival of get lost or stolen. And in extreme weather conditions, you should be able to retain enough heat in the winter and cool in the summer to survive the event with from health problems such as hypothermia or heat stroke.

Prepared can start with the acquisition of a survival kit that is pre-configured with the most common items needed in an emergency situation. A pre-built survival kit takes the guesswork out of what in a kit and will allow for easy, rapid retrieval, as well as create confidence to know you, your family will have the supplies that you need to overcome most emergency situations. Offers a great selection of emergency kits for most disasters, natural disasters or office/school environments off The Grid ready. These kits are designed and built by professional survival experts the objectives identified above.

These kits come in a handy backpack or portable container that allows enough space you can customize to your specific needs and should be expanded with your personal items. The following items are suggestions:

Extra pair of eyeglasses or contactsSunglassesMedical prescriptionsPersonal grooming items (finger nail clippers, ear swabs, SOAP, toothpaste and toothbrush, tweezers, etc.)Sunscreen and lip balmChewing gumSanitation (bacterial wipes, toilet paper, trash bags, SOAP) coffee (gotta have my coffee) fresh batteriesHat (sun and/or cold protection) extra pair of socks and underwearA little extra cash Hand address book written (electronic forms will be available not always) reading materials (Bible) other miscellaneous comfort items

These are just a few of the items we recommend adding to your kits based on our own knowledge and experience. In future articles we will add it to your preparedness process with further discussion in the planning, exercise for emergencies, communication and physical & spiritual preparedness.

Prepared can be achieved with a little focus and within a relatively short period of time, especially when utilizing the experience and knowledge of survival experts. So for now thank you for your support and let you know how we can help you and your family are ready Off The Grid.

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