| Everybody should have an emergency plan. After | | | | could stretch this to 2 weeks so much the better. |
| all we do have house insurance, health insurance, | | | | This would not be too hard to implement with |
| car insurance even death plan insurance, but how | | | | just a little foresight and some careful planning. |
| many of us have an emergency plan in case of a | | | | Should yo think that being prepared for an |
| disaster? How many people could survive if there | | | | eventual disaster is being paranoid, think again. |
| is a major catastrophe such as we have seen in | | | | Being prepared could save your life and the lives |
| recent years with hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in | | | | of your family and friends. A good stock of food, |
| the pacific or the various floods and severe | | | | fresh water and medicines can also save you |
| weather we have been experiencing? | | | | money in the long run by buying in bulk and |
| Do not be deluded in thinking that emergency | | | | rotating the usage of the more perishable goods |
| services will be there immediately to rescue you | | | | such as cans and dried food. |
| and provide food, shelter and medical help. Those | | | | This preparedness not only applies to house |
| services can themselves be severely disrupted | | | | owners, you could be well set up in a city even |
| and help may not arrive for days. This last winter | | | | while renting by adapting slightly to the different |
| we saw Europe in the grips of one of the | | | | circumstances. Two weeks of food and water |
| harshest winters and it didn't seem to take too | | | | does not take that much room and why not get |
| much to cut roads and train services. | | | | a group of neighbours together on this? |
| The worst effects were from the power cuts as | | | | Many older folks still do this, just recently while |
| lines came down, some of those services took | | | | visiting my mother I noticed the ample supplies |
| weeks to restore. Now consider this: how long | | | | she kept in her garage {she lives in an apartment |
| would you survive in the middle of a harsh winter | | | | building], enough to feed a family for at least 2 |
| with no food, no power, therefore no heat and | | | | weeks. Her answer to my comment was: "well |
| possibly no way to communicate? | | | | you never know, I can't go out as much as I |
| Every household must have an emergency plan | | | | would like to and so I like to have every |
| to survive 3 days to a week if need be, if you | | | | eventuality covered". Good on you Mum! |