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Family Emergency Preparedness 2006
Thought Hurricane season 2005 with Katrina and Rita was bad? Well
get ready for 2006 as it will be equally as bad or worse.
As an emergency preparedness consultant featured on CNN and Fox
News, I can assure you that if you are not prepared you could meet
the same fate as hundreds of people did during Katrina. NO scare
tactics just the truth!
First of all you need to have a water supply on hand for at
least one week for each member of the family. We suggest one gallon
per day per family member as the MINIMUM! Sure the people in New
Orleans were surrounded by water but it was totally unfit to
drink.
Next you need a supply of food that can be protected from rising
water.
You need to put it in LARGE plastic waterproof containers.
You should have food for at least a week in the form of MREs and
typical staples like peanut butter, jelly, honey, crackers, and can
goods of baked beans, vegetables, soups, Spam, tuna, sardines,
Vienna sausages, salmon, chicken, etc. Don't wait until the
hurricane is upon you to get these items!
Next you need for EVERY member of the family to have a
Preparedness Travel Backpack with: clothes, a pair of sneakers,
socks, underwear, a protective hat/cap, good quality poncho, an
individual NASA blanket and or sleeping bag (these are folded so
tight in their packages that you can easily get them in the
backpack)and most importantly ID packets as described in my FR**
Emergency Preparedness Guide at .usprepared.
com.
You will need a well equipped first aid kit that also can be
kept in one of the backpacks along with an emergency radio that can
be manually wound up. Put in a LARGE supply of matches that have
been waterproofed. SEVERAL flashlights that feature the new LED
lights that can be either shaken or wound up.
Also make sure to
have a supply of FRESH batteries of every size that you will be
needing NOW not later!
If you are traveling by vehicle, that vehicle should have FDA
approved plastic containers for your drinking water and several
other ones for your vehicle to keep it from overheating. You need
GOOD quality plastic 5 gallon GAS containers filled up NOW. Keep a
supply of oil and transmission fluid in the car along with several
cans of those tire inflating aerosols. If you don't have a high
quality tool kit for your vehicle get one NOW! Also have some form
of emergency flashers available.
Also make sure and have a family tent in the vehicle. How many
people did you see during Hurricane Katrina that had to wait for
FEMA to provide tents?
Certainly you have fire extinguishers at home. Well do you also
have one for each vehicle? If not, get then NOW!
You are going to need to have your food supplies mentioned above
in BIG plastic containers that can be moved to the vehicle without
taking the time to stock it up. Do that NOW!
There is a lot more that you will need to know and it's all
available at .
usprepared.com in the FREE Emergency
Preparedness Guide. Also you will find info there on preparing for
bird flu too.
Hugh Simpson is an emergency preparedness consultant that has
appeared on Art Bell Coast to Coast, CNN and Fox News.
He is a
former investigative reporter for Post Newsweek TV and currently
owns a TV production company, Avmagination.
Hugh Simpson is an emergency preparedness consultant featured on
Art Bell Coast to Coast, Fox News and CNN. He is a former
investigative reporter for Post Newsweek TV and currently owns a TV
production company, AVmagination, in the mountains of western North
Carolina. He is also a certified personal fitness trainer that
co-produced and hosted an award winning TV series on holistic
health and fitness.
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