Prepared 101
Okay,
I hope you're ready because I am super excited and can't wait to get started. Cincinnati Homestead Mom will keep all of the weeks saved in the dropbox so if you miss a week you can always go back to find it. Here is the link to the Weeks Of Prepared 101. (Just click where it says "Weeks Of Prepared 101")
WEEK
1
No
rest for the unprepared individual so I’m just going to start by giving you
your first assignment. You will need
some sort of binder, folder, or notebook to keep all of your “prepared”
information in.
I
want a list of what you are preparing for (fire, thunderstorms, tornados,
martial law, pandemic, nuclear war, etc.…).
I want you to send me a copy of this list; you can put it in my dropbox. I also want a copy of it in your binder (this should
be one of the first pages and can be handwritten on notebook paper). Its best if the family helps you come up with
this list.
Once
you have a list of things you want to be prepared for, note how long each may
last, and what your plan of action would be.
Short
term – day or week
Medium
term – weeks to months
Long
term – months to years
Example
Fire – short term
initial effect with a medium duration of time for cleanup and reestablishing
·
Leave house immediately and meet at the corner store
Pandemic – most likely
a medium term situation
·
Limit or Cut Off contact with the public, increase
sanitization
Civil Unrest – short to
medium duration in time
·
Bug In (stay inside), secure doors and window, if things
get too bad in our area Bug Out to another location that isn’t under as much
conflict.
Now that you have an idea of what kind of situations you are preparing for, lets get some things we want to start stocking up on. Obviously it would be hard to survive without water or food so lets start there.
To me, water is the most important. You are going to have a real hard time doing anything without water. For drinking, cooking, cleaning, and personal hygiene, you are going to need H2O. And not just any H2O will do, unless you enjoy vomiting and diarrhea. Knowing how to make your water safe to drink could be the difference between life and death, so start researching ways to locate, purify, store, and use water in an emergency situation. I have included a link to some of the "Water Information" I personally have in my binder. Please use some of this as an idea on what you might want to include in your own research.
Things To Do
Start a section in your binder or folder designated to "Water". Here you will keep information on how to locate, purify, store, collect, and use water. You will track how much water is needed for you or your family, and you will also keep track of how much water you have stored. Just because you know the information now, I would still keep a printed copy in your folder (we forget the simplest of things when we need them). Keeping all of this information in one place and easily accessible will help out greatly in an emergency.
· I want you to
store 1 gallon of water for each member of your household
The list of things to “Prepare” for and
how long they may last is due in 1 week.
You can send the documents to me in my dropbox. You can also send pictures of the items you have
purchased or stored for additional points towards prizes.
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