One of the questions I am asked most often when teaching Emergency Preparedness and on Facebook is: “I’m spending all this time, effort, and money to prepare and I have friends and family who tell me they will just come to our house when disaster strike. I don’t really want to share when they had money, time and space to do it themselves. Am I wrong?”
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Do You Believe the Savior’s Admonition on Preparedness?
Recently I have seen panic and fear due to tariffs and deportation and so much more. The media is feeding us information hourly, some true, some partially true, some completely untrue. What do we believe? Why are people panicked about the future and how to protect themselves?
How to Stay Safe on Your Summer Road Trips
Summer driving can be extremely dangerous, should your car break down leaving you stranded in the blistering heat. With the price of gas coming down more and more families will be heading out on the road. Now is the time to prepare to ensure your safe arrival.
Raising Our Children to Be Self-Reliant
My 12-year-old student said, "But we are never going to be good grandmas like our grandmothers. We don't know how to do anything. We don’t know how to sew or bake bread or can vegetables or grow a garden like our grandmothers." You can make sure this isn't true for your children.
Enjoy Your Flight by Being Prepared
Winter is not the only time an airport may be shut down for long periods. An earthquake destroying roads and bridges, a hurricane mayhem on the roads and building failure, a mass power grid failure, there are so many other scenarios. Be the one who others envy by being prepared.
Are You Prepared For an Auto Accident?
Emergencies don’t always come in the form we expect, but sometimes they come in ordinary ways to remind us that our goal is actually not to have every conceivable remedy in the trunk of our car, but to possess some specific knowledge and the confidence that comes from a spirit of self-reliance.
Lessons Learned: Five Day Kits
We have recently seen horrendous flooding in North Carolina and Tennessee and unbelievable fires in California. If we are paying attention, there is much we can learn. Today we look at lessons learned as they apply to Five Day kits.
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