| prepared is never something that you should take | | | | your emergency kit, and you should be fine without |
| lightly. It doesn't matter what the threat might be, | | | | running water, electricity, or other modern comforts. |
| what matters is that you know what you are going | | | | If you have thought your emergency plan through to |
| to do, when you should do it, and what the outcome | | | | the fullest degree, and you have taken everything |
| should be. Having an emergency response plan is | | | | into consideration, then during the emergency you |
| something that has come up often in recent years, | | | | should be able to be completely self-standing, and |
| yet it is something that each family or business | | | | should not need to rely on any other organization, |
| should have been focusing on for a long time. | | | | business, or commodity to make sure that you |
| There are many advantages to an emergency | | | | survive. In times of extreme emergency and distress, |
| response plan. The first is that you will be able to | | | | you cannot rely on the organizations that are |
| know where everyone is at all times. The second is | | | | supposed to protect you and keep you safe. These |
| that you won't be bothered by lack of electricity or | | | | might be times where you have to rely completely |
| other things, because you will know what you should | | | | on yourself for your own survival and for the survival |
| be doing. And the third, and most important, is that | | | | of the people around you. So, a good emergency |
| your entire group will survive the emergency without | | | | response plan will help you make sure that you are in |
| problems. | | | | charge of your own survival, and that you don't need |
| Knowledge | | | | to worry about anything other than your plan and |
| The first advantage to having an emergency | | | | getting your family or group to safety. |
| response plan is that you will have the knowledge of | | | | Survival |
| where everyone is, and what is going to happen | | | | Survival is the major advantage of having an |
| next. A good emergency response plan would have | | | | emergency response plan. This means that if you |
| been written with many different situations in mind, | | | | have a plan, and it is organized and well thought out, |
| so that those following it have an exact idea of what | | | | and then it is put into use in the correct way, you will |
| everyone else is doing. The peace of mind that | | | | survive. It is in the times before the emergency, |
| comes from knowing that not only you are following | | | | when you have the chance to carefully think things |
| the plan, but that those that you love are also | | | | through, which you will insure you survive if an |
| following the plan is priceless because it will help you | | | | emergency does happen. Survival is the main |
| survive. When an emergency occurs, you want to be | | | | advantage of a good emergency plan. |
| able to focus on the things that you have to do. | | | | This does not apply only to your own survival of |
| Who do you need to contact or find? What items | | | | course. One of the most important factors of an |
| should you take to what location? And how should | | | | emergency survival plan is that if you are detailed |
| you proceed? These are the things that you should | | | | and organized and if you know what you should be |
| be focusing on, which are yet another advantage of | | | | doing and where you should be going, this allows you |
| having an emergency response plan - you know | | | | to be able to help others survive as well. You can |
| exactly what to focus on. You also know that you | | | | make sure that there are other people who survive |
| don't need to worry about the others around you | | | | the disaster or the emergency, and you can do this |
| and what they are doing, because they should also | | | | by making sure that you have a plan, you follow the |
| be following their emergency plans as well. Having a | | | | plan, and you stay safe. |
| well organized and well structured emergency | | | | A well placed and well carried out emergency |
| response plan means that everyone knows what | | | | response plan is going to be your best bet for |
| they are doing, and as long as everyone stays calm | | | | survival. Don't wait until you need one to start |
| and does what they are supposed to do, everyone | | | | thinking about what it should be. Figure out what you |
| will be able to get through the emergency unscathed. | | | | need to do to get yourself safe, figure out how you |
| Survival Ability | | | | can help others around you, and figure out the exact |
| Another key advantage of having an organized and | | | | details of all of these things. You can set your |
| complete emergency response plan is that you | | | | emergency plan in place, and hope that you never |
| should be able to operate completely on your own, | | | | need it. However, if you ever do, you will be grateful |
| with the items that you have prepared ahead of | | | | that it is there. |
| time. You should be able to survive on the items in | | | | |