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Emergency Survival Kit Checklist

Perhaps you’ve heard the good news that the world didn’t end this week. Whether you put your stock with the Mayan prediction or not, you probably agree with me that it’s a good thing life as we know it is still running along, if for no other reason than that it means you’ve still got some time to sharpen your survival skills. (I’m also pretty happy that I’ll get to see my two-year-old open her Christmas presents, but you know.) We talk a lot about the importance of emergency food storage on this blog, and today I want to switch...

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Five Preparedness Lessons Learned from Recent Natural Disasters

With plenty of communities in the East still reeling from Hurricane Sandy and other natural disasters happening all over the globe, there has been a lot of talk lately about what we can do as individuals and as societies to be better prepared for emergencies. Of course we know we need to have food and water and basic emergency supplies on hand, but people who have lived through emergencies say there is more to being prepared than this. A month or so ago, I began to compile a list of advice gathered from news articles, blogs, and discussion boards from...

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Family Emergency Preparedness: Plan to Succeed

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Benjamin Franklin  A few months ago, I had an experience I don’t care to repeat ever again. I was running late for work (Don’t all good stories start that way?), and I threw my work bag together in a rush, tossed on some work clothes, and flew out the door to make my twenty-minute commute. After I was already on my way, I realized I had forgotten change for the parking meter at work. I crossed my fingers I would get lucky and not get a ticket. Then, as I got...

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Four Reasons Emergency Food Makes the Perfect Christmas Gift

At some point during Christmas time every year, I step into a certain, rather unpleasant scene. The scene should be familiar to me by now, but every year it sneaks up on me before I realize it is coming. It is usually a week or so before Christmas, and it looks something like this: I have been shopping for what seems like forever, slowly and painstakingly making my way down my list of people to buy for, trying to find a present that will be totally unexpected and wonderful for each one—a gift that person will love and will let...

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How Much Food Storage Is Enough?

Did you know that the average person eats 4,000 to 5,000 calories on Thanksgiving Day alone? About 3,000 of that is just from the Thanksgiving meal! How great would it be if we could just store those extra Thanksgiving calories up for later emergencies, if we could be more like bears who binge on berries and meat for six months of the year and then live off of their fat for the other six? Emergency preparation would be so much easier. Unfortunately, we don’t have six months of the year during which to hibernate to make this kind of self-storage...

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