How To Prioritize Your Family Disaster Preparedness Supplies Planning
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Reflect back across the last 20 years and about disasters that caused interruption of the delicate food supply system that gets all our food to the grocery stores. What if you were in the Gulf Coast region when Hurricane Katrina rumbled through? What about within a couple of hundred miles of Mount Saint Helens and the ash fall region? Then ask yourself if you are a location that could be struck by a natural disaster like an earthquake, hurricane, flooding or anything else that can disrupt the food provisioning system.
Do you have loved ones in your family that depend on you to provide for them? How would you feel if you can not take care of your family and children? Visualize what it would be like day after day looking at your hungry and thirsty children and not being able to do anything about it. The time to stop something like that from taking place is now.
Here are three tips to help you get started on putting together a plan.
Make sure you have a safe place that everybody knows to come to. For many people this will be their house, but it also could be a cabin up in the woods, or a relative's house. It is best to have a place that is accessible and won't have hordes of people that will take your supplies.
Have a source of water, a way to store it, and a way to get fresh water. A great way to do this is to have a well dug on your property. Another is to locate a river or stream nearby and ensure you have water filtration equipment on hand.
Have a reserve of food available. You can begin by getting some cases of canned soup and beans locally, but to do this the right way you should calculate the quantity of calories that you will require based on the number of people that are dependent on you and how long you think food will be unavailable. Moreover, make sure that food does not go bad by rotating it regularly or buying food prepared for long-term storage.
The time to prepare for a disaster so you can ensure your survival of your family is before the disaster happens. Make a plan and take action now.
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