Archive for ' Disasters'

23 Tips to Help You Prepare for Tornado Season Posted:March 19, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

23 Tips to Help You Prepare for Tornado Season

Thanks to my Facebook friends for some of these tips! 1.       Buy a home with a storm cellar.  Reinforce it with steel doors. 2.       Make sure you have up-to-date homeowner’s insurance. 3.       Have a To Go [...]

“Gone In 60 Seconds”… Do You Have a Disaster Prepared Mindset? Posted:March 13, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

“Gone In 60 Seconds”… Do You Have a Disaster Prepared Mindset?

Guest post by Tara who blogs at Disaster Mom.  Check it out! Ashes fell like rain and smoke drowned out the fiery red sun on our cozy Southern California beach town in October of 2007. The [...]

So where DO you start when everything has been lost? Posted:March 05, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

So where DO you start when everything has been lost?

Once again, nightmare tornadoes have destroyed homes, businesses, and lives across central and southern America.  Piles of debris are all that remain of homes and lifetimes of memories.  In the initial hours and days following such [...]

Worst case scenario medical care Posted:May 24, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Worst case scenario medical care

Reader Maureen F. emailed to me an excellent list of observations made by a medical doctor, Michael Karch, M.D., who treated victims of the 9/11 attack in New York City.  He wrote a lengthy article that [...]

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: An ever-ready photo I.D. Posted:May 23, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: An ever-ready photo I.D.

Recent reports of the horrific tornado season made me think of a common piece of advice, “Have some form of I.D. on yourself and your kids.”  Well, in the midst of chaos, I’ll be lucky to [...]

Survival Survey: Picking up the pieces Posted:May 11, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Survey: Picking up the pieces

One of my Facebook friends, Ellen, asked the following, and I thought it would make a great Survival Survey question. I’m in Alabama, where we are still digging out from the April 27, tornados. There are [...]

Lessons for Hurricane Evacuations Posted:April 19, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Lessons for Hurricane Evacuations

  Last year, Kathlyn Smith of Texas shared with me some of her hurricane experiences.  She’s a single mom in her 50′s and has managed to ride out two recent hurricanes, Ike and Rita, on her [...]

Maybe an earthquake emergency kit isn’t such a bad idea Posted:March 16, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Maybe an earthquake emergency kit isn’t such a bad idea

Whenever I get panicked about something scary, the end of the world, for example, I wait a few minutes and the feeling goes away.  I’m not panicking about earthquakes, but after I watched this video, I [...]

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: Earthquake Survival for your Head, Feet, & Eyes Posted:October 15, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: Earthquake Survival for your Head, Feet, & Eyes

When an earthquake shakes and rattles your world, there are three parts of your body that are particularly vulnerable: your head, feet, and eyes.  When the earth shakes, everything shakes, and that includes shelves, cupboards, appliances, [...]

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: Awareness First, Preparedness Second Posted:October 12, 2010 By:thesurvivalmom

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: Awareness First, Preparedness Second

Arkansas is in the news this week.  It seems the area around the New Madrid Fault line has been unusually active with earthquakes.  In 1811-1812, three very large earthquakes shook the area. The earthquakes caused the [...]