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So I had finished putting away our Christmas decorations and was about to put my son down for a nap when my husband called:
Husband: Did you hear about the tornado?
Me: What?! Tornado?!
Husband: Apparently it's by blah blah blah... but shouldn't be coming towards us.
Me: I don't even know what to do in a tornado... what do we do in a tornado!?
The conversation went on but you get the picture right... We are not prepared for a tornado! Some nearby cities (about 45 minutes away from us) were under the possible impact zones and that was just a little too close for comfort for me. So of course, it takes something like this to get the motivation to get prepared.
We recently moved to North Carolina and apparently tornado's are a possibility here, something I did not know. I did look it up by the way and we'll need to be in low lying areas and if we're home to stay on the bottom floor away from windows. I plan on going into the downstairs bathroom.
Luckily the Tornado alert is over and I am officially ready to get ourselves prepared. So we do still have our 72 hour kit that does need more but we have it, and we have a lot of food but I started going through scenarios in my head... And these were some of the things I was thinking about that I wanted to share with you to get you thinking.
--- If we had to leave our home to go to a shelter or even just fend for ourselves out in our car... do I have what I would want/need in my 72 hour kit that we would take with us?
- Our kit really isn't too bad, but I realized I never packed our extra clothes in there, if we had to leave our home we'd definitely want some warm extra clothes.
- We have candles in there, but no holders, so I guess we'd have to hold our candles...
- I had taken out the food that was in there because it expired.
--- Our best scenario would be if we had a disaster but had electricity but just couldn't either leave our house or if stores didn't have anything in stock.
- We actually, thanks to Shelf Reliance, have a lot of food so I wouldn't be too worried about starving.
- We could use more water though. I plan on buying these water bricks from Shelf Reliance, easy to store and stack. Plus, when we move again, we'll just use up the water beforehand and easily transport the empty bricks.
- We actually, thanks to Shelf Reliance, have a lot of food so I wouldn't be too worried about starving.- We could use more water though. I plan on buying these water bricks from Shelf Reliance, easy to store and stack. Plus, when we move again, we'll just use up the water beforehand and easily transport the empty bricks.
--- Home without electricity.
- So... without electricity we're not as prepared, food wise it would be better if we had a propane stove or something so we could at least heat things up, boil water etc. (That is now on my list of things to buy).
- So... without electricity we're not as prepared, food wise it would be better if we had a propane stove or something so we could at least heat things up, boil water etc. (That is now on my list of things to buy).
- We also don't have a grill and weather permitting that would be handy eating wise.
- And still no candle holders... we really need to invest in some of those.
So just some things to think about... these 72 hour kit lists are very handy but it was really good for me to play out these scenarios in my head to see what we really do or don't have. The scenarios had me think about how I would use things also. And don't forget if being more emergency prepared is something that you want to do... just start.
- And still no candle holders... we really need to invest in some of those.
So just some things to think about... these 72 hour kit lists are very handy but it was really good for me to play out these scenarios in my head to see what we really do or don't have. The scenarios had me think about how I would use things also. And don't forget if being more emergency prepared is something that you want to do... just start.
