Prepared 101 Week 1

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

So lets recap, you should have made a list of events that you want to prepare for, plus come up with a short and basic plan of action for those events.  You should have also started some research on that wonderful thing that keeps us alive called water, and you should have stored 1 gallon of water for each member in 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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