ARE YOU READY "The Building Blocks to Prepare for the Unexpected"

Cooking & serving Items - You need to store enough water to clean cooking items. Also store paper towels, paper plates and cups and plastic silverware.

Don't forget to store toilet paper, feminine products, toothpaste, and other hygiene products.

Personal Hygiene - Create a kit that will take care of all your hygiene needs.

Clothing / Bedding - Make sure you have enough blankets to keep warn if the heat goes off.

Disaster Sanitation & Personal Hygiene

Mental & Spiritual Readiness

Finance & Money, Self-Reliance, Using a Budget

Having the knowledge and understanding to know what to do during an emergency.

First, Make a schedule of things to do during the day to keep you and the children busy..

Second, Keep the kids busy and occupied. Have books, puzzles, games, toys and educational materials for them to do.

Assign them jobs to be done.

Having things to do to keep your mind occupied too.

Third, Our greatest teacher is Jesus Christ. Communication with him, reading the scriptures, constant prayer and obedience is our greatest tools.

Finance & Money, Self-Reliance, Using a Budget

If everything came to a halt today, how would you buy or sell things?

Most likely credit and debit cards wouldn't work.

Having cash or precious metals may be of worth but food and water are priceless.

Many believe that cash may not be worth anything either.

How to Financially Prepare for a Natural Disaster

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BECOME FINANCIALLY SELF-RELIANT

You should be financially stable at all times. Dave Ramsey is one of those that can help get you to financially set if you live strictly to his program.

Her suggests that you should have an Emergency Account of a $1,000. He also has Steps, Called BABY STEPS, that will help you become debt free.

Dave has a FREE ONLINE BUDGET, Called EVERY DOLLAR, to help you control your spending and see where your money goes. It is a very nice tool to get started.

Shelter in Place

Gathering Your Family

In most man-made and natural disasters people normally ride out the situation by staying home called "shelter in place".

Having the basic supplies to stay inside at home for a long period of time.

How to shelter in place at home.

Gathering Your Family

Have a gathering spot near your home. Make sure everyone knows where it is. Practice it with your family.

Have a plan on how and where to gather your family together during an emergency when the kids are at school and you are at work.

Family Code Word

Gathering Your Family

Emergency Planning & Create a Family Bug Out Plan

Come up with a word that all family members can memorize. Use this word only when there is a true emergency. This word should not be used other than this purpose.

Gather your family members periodically to discuss the family code word.

Emergency Planning & Create a Family Bug Out Plan

Where will you retreat? You should have a local place to go and another place possibly out of state if you have to leave your home

Plan your trip using back roads. Main roads tend to get backed up.

Prepare for the emergency. Always have a 1/2 tank of gas and have your 72 hour kit(s) ready to go.

What to take with you. 72 hour kit, money (cash), important papers, medications, pets, food for pets and your weapons.

For more Emergency Planning Tips visit

COUPONFOLLOW Website

Going to Your Bug Out Location

Emergency Planning & Create a Family Bug Out Plan

Going to Your Bug Out Location

A bug out shelter is a place you would retreat to other than your own home. The bug out shelter should be out of the danger area.

A bug out shelter can be another location, cabin, building, camper, safety shelter RVs or buses.

Securing & Leaving Your Home

Emergency Planning & Create a Family Bug Out Plan

Going to Your Bug Out Location

When securing your home make sure all doors and windows are locked. Leave your home like if you were there.

If you are leaving for a long period of time take all your very important items with you.

Having someone check on your home while you are away(if possible).

What to shut off before leaving your home.

How to winterize your home.

Survival

Important Papers

Medicines

If there were a full economical collapse, how would you survive?

Preparation is a must and you need to know what to expect and how to handle situations before they happen.

Here are some manuals to help.

United State Army Survival Manual

Survival Manuals for Preppers

Medicines

Important Papers

Medicines

During an emergency stores and drug stores would most likely be closed. Do you have enough medicine to get through an emergency?

Having your prescriptions written for a 90 day supply would most likely the best way to avoid not having enough medicine during an emergency situation.

If this isn't possible, refill your prescriptions a week early.

Important Papers

Self-Reliance Classes

Wills, Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates, Pass Ports, Bank & Financial Documents, Church Certificates, Social Security Documents and cards, Medical papers, drivers licenses and other important papers you may have should be kept in a place that you can readily grab them if you have to evacuate your home.

Self-Reliance Classes

The Lord has commanded us to be self-reliant. The LDS Church has created a Self-Reliance initiative program.

This educational program runs 12 weeks on 1 given topic. This is free and open to anyone.

It consists of 4 different topics that can improve a better way of life and help you achieve to become a better self-reliant person and provider.

All 4 topics run at the same time and there are 3 different times during the year to take a classes.

The 4 different topics are:

Starting and Growing a Business

Finding a Better Job

Education for Better Work

Personal Finance

Manuals and Videos

Protection

Self-Reliance Classes

Active Shooter

During the time of a long period of time of a disaster, people become desperate. Those that haven't prepared for the disaster will do anything to get food for themselves and their families.

Unfortunately you will need to protect yourself from them.

Security - Home

Security - Personal

Weapons you should own.

Why you should own a gun.

Active Shooter

Self-Reliance Classes

Active Shooter

In today's society, and all over the globe, we see acts of violence being committed on innocent people.

We have seen it happen at movie theaters, malls, night clubs, stores, churches, and schools.

On 2/19/2018 The Wayne County Sheriff's Office in New York invited the public to attend a "Active Shooter" seminar at the Ohmann Theater in Lyons New York.

They referenced the link below in their presentation.

Run Hide Fight Video

Notes of the 2018 Wayne County New York Sheriff's Department Presentation

Wayne County S.C.O.P.E.

National Rifle Association

Communication Radios and Weather Radios

Land-line telephones may not work during an emergency but cells phone might. One problem is that everyone is going to use the cell phones.

The best way to use a cell phone during an emergency is to text the person you want to communicate with.

Texting only takes a second to send a message where a phone call ties up the line for the full duration of the phone call.

Portable Radios is a great way to have communication between each other.

My personal favorite is the Baofeng uv-8r portable 2 meter radio. I carry this radio wherever I go. This radio allows you to program in the frequencies you like. It is also an 8 watt radio, (powerful for a portable). This radio retails on amazon for only $37.00. (to operate this radio you need a 2 meter ham license to operate).

AM/FM Radios will keep you informed. The best way to buy them is in a battery powered or crank style.

Weather Radios with S.A.M.E. S.A.M.E. radios are silent until there is a weather emergency which NOAA weather sets off the radio so you can hear the emergency message.

Emergency Preparations for Your Pets

Communication Radios and Weather Radios

We need to think about our pets before there is an emergency.

In the past, during hurricanes and other weather related emergencies, we see that many people leave their pets behind to fend for themselves. This is sad. We need to be mindful of our pets needs.

Below are links that are helpful to help protect and prepare your pet.

Pets Ready.gov

American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Humane Society.org

How to Protect Your Pet from an Emergency or Natural Disaster

How to prepare your pet for natural disasters and 10 steps to take to ensure your pet is safe.