But on to more interesting matters!
This unit is all about being prepared for disasters hitting the community on a family and neighborhood level. The first part wants you to discuss potential disasters and set up a family emergency plan.
Simple enough. Common things that go wrong here in Houston are, in no particular order, hurricanes, house fires, thunderstorms, floods, and long power-outages. For the things requiring evacuation, we can shut off the water (we don't have gas), grab the newly created disaster preparedness kit (more on that later) and be off before all the traffic hits. For all else, we can board up the windows, break out some books and sit tight while the gales toss around objects, small animals, and dolphins (hey you never know). Additionally, we have one neighbor that's a nurse and another that's an EMT. They would be able to care for any injured people (oh did I mention my stupidly large amount of medical supplies? I feel like I did) while my other neighbor who happens to be a HUGE survival buff would be able to assist anyone who needed help due to lack of proper equipment or what-have-you. So given that, we would be able to wait out the apocalypse I'd imagine.
The next step was to build a family emergency kit. This was shockingly easy for as it turned out I had most of the things already and just had to get it all in one place/find a lovely bag for some of it. Firstly, here's a picture of the assembly (water not pictured):
These items would fit into the bag the items on the right are sitting on. Pictured is a box of MRE's, my large first aid kit, rain gear, boots, a rope, small sleeping bag liner, flashlight, money, soap, toiletries, knife, hand-cranked radio/light/siren/flasher, more money, paper plates... stuff like that.
Other things that should be in the house: some gloves, a hat, plastic tarp, plastic containers, bleach, matches that haven't been put in a waterproof container at the time of this picture, paper, pencils, a phone acting as a compass, foil, a waterproof box for important documents, medicine dropper, fire extinguisher, tape, flare, emergency shelter, trash bags, and more that is around and I forgot to put in the picture, I'm sure.
That's it for the pictorial information session of today. Now on to a helpful video summary. Huzzah!
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