Natural Disasters

emergcy preparedness, Emergency Survival skills, Family Preparedness, Natural Disasters, survival kit, Survival kits, Survival Skills - December 17, 2024

How to Not Become a Winter Driving Statistic

Picture this: You're driving home when snow hits hard and fast. The flakes are huge and the roads become slippery fast. With visibility at almost nothing, you notice the curve too late and your car slides straight into a snowbank. You are still miles from home, night is falling, and the cars that pass can't even see you through the blizzard. Your phone shows one weak bar of service, and your gas tank is running low. That emergency kit you kept meaning to pack? Still on your to-do list. Don't let this be you. During the winter season it's critical to have supplies...

4 Ways to Prepare for Hurricane Season Before It’s Too Late

In support of the Red Cross’s official National Hurricane Preparedness Week, Legacy CEO Phil Cox offers the following tips for how to prepare for hurricanes right now. Weather experts predict that this year U.S. states along the Atlantic will experience only two hurricanes, another “below average” season like last year’s. How strong they will be and how much damage they will create, however, is still up for debate. While it is difficult to know with what force these hurricanes will approach until they are already in action, past experience shows how imperative it is to prepare for this force of nature to prevent as much...

Pets and Emergency Preparedness

Every good pet owner makes sure that pets are fed, groomed, exercised, sheltered, and sometimes even clothed, but one area of care that many pet owners forget is to prepare their pets for emergency situations. If you are in the process of gathering supplies and knowledge to get your family prepared for a disaster, don’t neglect your favorite furry, feathery, or scaly friend. For the most part, pets’ needs in an emergency situation will be very similar to humans’ needs. The most important things you can do to prepare your pet for a disaster are to put together a...

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...

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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