Lisa

Lisa

How many fire trucks are available to respond to your fire during a tornado? How many police can respond to your burglary when there's an active shooter at school? How many ambulances are available in your community when they are ecacuating the nursing home patients following a fire?

IN emergency management, we only ask for 72 hours of personal preparedness. Food, clothing, shelter are yours to own. After 72 hours, the situation has resolved itself or the Government is working hard to get you the essential services you require.

Check your home-owners or renter's insurance. These policies can be life-savers, especially to those who refuse to plan, prepare, practice, and promote for personal actions. Of course, for the money from insurance to be most effective, there needs to be a plan for how to spend it, ex. pre-planning evacuation for lodging for family and pets.

Thanks for the nice blog. I hope you have lots of readers. For years, your Federal government has had the "Are You Ready" program (http://www.fema.gov/areyouready) and (http://ready.gov). One more voice crying in the wilderness can't hurt.

Hope you can visit our blog once in a while to get some more ideas of how Citizens can and should prepare.

I applied and received my firearms license and we will be going for safety lessons together as a team. We have ordered wheat in bulk, along with other types of storable foods. We started a garden this past summer. We both created an emergency binder. We purchased gold and silver because of the tanking dollar…The list goes on.

This blog made me a believer and for that I am very thankful. Oh…my husband is very thankful, too! We now see eye to eye and I no longer consider him a paranoid freak. We pray that nothing disastrous ever happens, but in the event that it does occur, we are prepared! Thank you, Survival Mom!

Wow! I love your blog.
I went scouting around and found your tip on making a list of what each item in your kit could be used for. A few weeks ago, I did an emergency week with another blog. The first day we were supposed to take our 72hr kits and leave the house for 5 hrs. We were to only use what was in that bag for food, water, etc. I very smugly picked up my 72 hr kit and my son's 72 hr kit and off we went to my workplace (I clean some church buildings). It was down on the outskirts of Atlanta and there is a FIRE BAN down there. No problem! I have a soda can stove that I made and 2 bottles of fuel inside it. Only…..where WAS the fuel??? (Later it was found at home on the top shelf of the closet the 72 hr bags are kept in. What I FORGOT was that I had some alcohol that I use for deodorant in my kit and consequently, we couldn't heat much of the food we had. You see, HEET, denatured alcohol or regular alcohol all burn in these stoves. We were able to heat some water hot enough to make some instant potatoes by using our sunscreen for the car. Had we started earlier in the day, it would have worked very well, but the late sun didn't get the water hot enough to cook some microwave mac and cheese that we had with us.

And I JUST NOW realized that we didn't take our whole emergency stuff with us! We forgot to take the blue tub in the bottom of the closet as well as another couple of bags – like my ham radio bag with us!!!! The box had more water in it and some more supplies. I need to get the extra fuel into that and a note in my emergency book to that that box and also to take the extra bags with us if we're using the car to leave.

I have been making a notebook that I now have with my emergency kits with all my tips in it.

I went scouting around and found your tip on making a list of what each item in your kit could be used for. A few weeks ago, I did an emergency week with another blog. The first day we were supposed to take our 72hr kits and leave the house for 5 hrs. We were to only use what was in that bag for food, water, etc. I very smugly picked up my 72 hr kit and my son's 72 hr kit and off we went to my workplace (I clean some church buildings). It was down on the outskirts of Atlanta and there is a FIRE BAN down there. No problem! I have a soda can stove that I made and 2 bottles of fuel inside it. Only…..where WAS the fuel??? (Later it was found at home on the top shelf of the closet the 72 hr bags are kept in. What I FORGOT was that I had some alcohol that I use for deodorant in my kit and consequently, we couldn't heat much of the food we had. You see, HEET, denatured alcohol or regular alcohol all burn in these stoves. We were able to heat some water hot enough to make some instant potatoes by using our sunscreen for the car. Had we started earlier in the day, it would have worked very well, but the late sun didn't get the water hot enough to cook some microwave mac and cheese that we had with us.

And I JUST NOW realized that we didn't take our whole emergency stuff with us! We forgot to take the blue tub in the bottom of the closet as well as another couple of bags – like my ham radio bag with us!!!! The box had more water in it and some more supplies. I need to get the extra fuel into that and a note in my emergency book to that that box and also to take the extra bags with us if we're using the car to leave.

I have been making a notebook that I now have with my emergency kits with all my tips in it.

Olivia