emergency preparedness

Emergency preparedness is the pursuit of obtaining all of the necessary food, supplies, and skills to be ready for and survive any type of disaster or catastrophe either natural or man made.

An essential component of emergency preparedness is the careful and considerate approach towards building and maintaining an adequate food storage that fits the needs of the individual and/or household.

One of the most important supplies in emergency preparedness efforts is a 72 hour kit, which includes first aid items, food and water, emergency blankets, matches, and other tools that a person or persons will need for self reliance and to survive during the first three days after a disaster has taken place.

Another crucial component of emergency preparedness is having the necessary training and skill sets to be able to respond or react appropriately in any disaster survival scenario. Examples include earthquakes, floods, house fires, severe weather, and many other such unanticipated and untimely occurrences. One useful skill to have is knowing beforehand where utility shutoffs are located and how to turn them off.


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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “emergency preparedness”

• Happy Holidelays!

  
  husdal.com — Authority: 125
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• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-21

  
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• Winter Storm Preparations

  
  The Low-Tech Times — Authority: 123
  Snow Storms and GroceriesThe Washington DC area has a reputation for making a run on grocery store items such as milk, bread, eggs, and toilet paper anytime snow is in the forecast. We actually already had most of what is pictured above, although we did buy a carton of eggs while we were out [...]
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• NCD in Houston to Listen to Issues Affecting People with Disabilities

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 131
  From NCD (12/17/09): National Council on Disability to Hold Houston Meeting to Hear Issues Affecting People with Disabilities WASHINGTON—The National Council on Disability (NCD) will conduct its next quarterly meeting at the JW MarriottHouston, 5150 Westheimer, Houston, TX, beginning at 8:30 a.m. ...
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• Catch some Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

  
  Pete Silva — Authority: 111
  It used to be the ‘stuck to our side’ pagers that go off at 3am telling you that a server crashed that would keep you up at night.  You’d drag yourself out of bed (or the chair at the data center that you fell asleep in), tippy-toe to the computer in hopes of gaining remote access or wonder to the car, still in ...
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• Corporate media learns collaboration

  
  Groupings — Authority: 120
  Rob Patersons blog has a fascinating post about a St Louis public TV station apparently getting to grips with the role of old media in the world of new media. KETC’s H1N1 Blog - FluPortal.org When the mortgage crisis began, KETC experimented with blogging as “a way to get information out to the community” ...
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• Important Alert: Severe Weather

  
  HumidCity — Authority: 122
  Following a conference call with the National Weather Service (NWS) and emergency managers from across the region, the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (NOHSEP) would like to alert citizens of expected severe weather conditions. Through Tuesday evening, the NWS is predicting an ...
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• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-14

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 528
  Flight 297 Passenger Talks About AirTran Incident http://www.wsbtv.com/video/21890485/index.html #Airtrans Flight 297 Passenger – Incident Bigger Than AirTran Claims http://bit.ly/5CgpAQ #Ahmadinejad – U.S. Blocking Return of Mahdi http://bit.ly/7chW7q #TSA Conducting Full Review Of Document Leak ...
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• Websites of Note

  
  Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC) — Authority: 135
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• GoBe Portable Solar Panels and Battery

  
  sectionhiker.com — Authority: 424
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• Keeping CodeRED a secret: two months and counting

  
  Locally Grown — Authority: 434
  There’s an article in Wednesday’s Nfld News titled Police upgrade emergency message system and an editorial today titled CodeRED should add weather alerts . But a search of the City’s web site for the word ‘CodeRed’ brings up “Sorry, no data matching the query "codered " were found.” It gets ...
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• FEMA Seeks Comments on Disaster Recovery Planning by Dec. 15

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 131
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• Emergency Preparedness Updates

  
  Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC) — Authority: 135
  Second FEMA Community Preparedness Webinar This webinar series provides up-to-date information on community preparedness topics and resources available to citizens, community organizations, and Citizen Corps Councils. This live webinar is scheduled for Monday, December 14th at 2pm EST and will provide information on ...
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• FEMA Social Media: Go Online To Get Prepared

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 433
  John Shea/FEMA Social Media: Go Online To Get Prepared, Share Info & Learn From Others (’What Should We Tell The Public?’ Video Series)This edition of the “What Should We Tell The Public?” video series features John Shea who manages FEMA’s extensive social media effort. In the segment, Shea urges the ...
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• Conference and Webinar Information

  
  Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC) — Authority: 135
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• Rapid Notification – When You Really Have to Know

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 433
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• Gifts for the person with everything

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 141
  You know that person on your holiday shopping list who has everything, which makes them pretty much impossible to shop for? I have a few people like that on my own list this year and it always takes some serious outside the box thinking to come up with something that theyll like. read more
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• What a Way to Start the Day

  
  One Day At A Time — Authority: 116
  IT WAS 4:30 a.m. and my eyes crossed as I gazed at the red numbers on the alarm clock. Fortunately I fell back asleep for a while until something woke me again. I opened my eyes and knew I must have gone blind while sleeping!! The room was totally dark! No glowing red numbers on the bedside table and none across the ...
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• Here We Go Again – Spending On Infrastructure Without a Plan

  
  Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis — Authority: 433
  On the drive home, I heard the WTOP/CBS news reporters talk about how the President was once again considering the building and re-building of portions of our nation’s infrastructure as a means to put the millions of unemployed and under-employed Americans back to work. I couldn’t help but feel, “Here we go ...
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• Camping Coast to Coast

  
  Travel Tips — Authority: 136
  The American continent is such a vast landscape of every imaginable terrain and climate. In the same country, you can walk in a tropical rain forest, play on a Caribbean beach, hike in a mountain range or fish on a…
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