September is Emergency Preparedness Month
The Chief Blonde Remarks:
Emergency Preparedness Month
September 2013 marks the tenth annual National Preparedness Month, sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the US Department of Homeland Security. One goal of Homeland Security is to educate the public about how to prepare for emergencies, including natural disasters, mass casualties, biological and chemical threats, radiation emergencies, and terrorist attacks. —CDC Website
How can I prepare for an emergency?
- Get a Kit.
- Make a Plan.
- Be Informed.
- Get Involved.
Penny Wise features Emergency Preparedness Kits and more
The Emergency Preparedness Backpack ($69.95 by Acme United Corporation) is filled with essential, must-have items for any emergency. It contains critical components needed when an emergency occurs including bad weather and power outages. Contents include six purified waters, one flashlight, light stick, six food bars, one pair of white poly/cotton gloves, a whistle, emergency blanket, rain poncho, hand warmers, mask, gloves, hand sanitizer and a first aid kit. Lightweight backpack has padded shoulder straps. Glow-in-the-dark tag makes it easy to carry and easy to find. Backpack is perfectly sized to store additional items. This backpack is surprisingly small in size for holding all these different items. Great to keep in a closet, so you can grab and go if need be.
This First Aid Kit XL ($23/95 by Acme United Corporation) is a smaller mobile emergency pack to keep in your car. It offers a soft-sided case and see-through pockets to make basic first aid items easy to find and easy to access. Portable case makes it perfect for car and travel. Kit contains essential first aid items including adhesive bandages, gauze pads, alcohol pads, antibiotic ointment, sting relief pads, tape, and gloves. Emergency preparedness items include a survival blanket, whistle, light stick, rain poncho, face mask and hand sanitizer. This kit is quite small, but packed to the brim with all kinds of emergency supplies. It’s perfect for travel.
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Water, since you can’t survive without it. Next, I would say food and first aid kit. The whistle and flashlight would also be great to have on hand. For the past few weeks my six year old has been obsessed with having an emergency tornado bag packed so he would definitely love this!
Can Live without water
Every bit of it is important and one great idea to have together for just incase it happens moments. We had a tornado in 98 and even the glow in the dark tag would had came in handy when I had to walk thru the woods a mile and out and quite aways on a st. rt. to walk back down the other side of the road to save the colt and her momma that was trapped in the barn with flood waters way above the colts head. The sand shifted down making a hill for her to stand on and it saved her life, well that and all the neighbors that was trapped in this hollar with us, nobody could get in to help and they brought ever piece of equipment and wenches you could imagine to save the horses. Their definetly Angels. It was bad and every bit of this kit is very important
The waters are most important. I remember New Orleans. What people needed most was the water to drink.
I think the water is the most important part of the kit because if you were to get stranded somewhere, at least you will keep hydrated, which is very important.
Hmm! That’s a hard question, its all very important. Obviously you need the water to survive, but otherwise I think the mask is very important- and something a lot ofpeople don’t think about!
Flashlight. It’s hard to do things in the dark…
I think the first aid kit and the light stick are the most important especially if you were stuck out in the wood or got lost somewhere
The six purified waters would come in handy for emergencies in our car.
I think the water is the most important part of the kit. So often we are caught with no bottled water.
In my opinion, the most important part of the kit is the actual backpack because it allows you to keep all of these critical items in one location and is spacious enough to hold additional emergency supplies.
Definitely the water
The water is the most important and the blanket comes in at a close second.
I think the first aid kit is the most important because injuries can turn serious with out intervention.
i would say the first aid kit because we have one in the vehicles and they tend to be used the most would depend on the emergency what would be important as to the emergency. but i guess it
I’d say the flashlight because it’s almost always the first thing I look for.
food bars are important, you always need food
I think, six purified waters is the most important, as one can not survive without clean water.
The water, it is the most basic need.
The six purified waters, it’s possible to go without food but we must have water while we find safe selter.