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Create Your Family Emergency Evacuation Plan with Free Printables

September is National Preparedness month and I am super excited to focus on emergency preparedness all month long on the blog.

Last week, I introduced our theme for the month with this blog post —> 3 Home Emergency Plans Your Family Needs To Create.

That post was an overview of everything we are going to discuss for the month.

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But today, I want to talk about creating an evacuation plan for your family.

This will help you plan for evacuations due to forest fire, hurricanes or other big emergencies.

Your Family Emergency Evacuation Plan

If you have to leave your home in an emergency evacuation, you need to make a plan of where to go, what to take and how to meet up with other family members.

Having a discussion about these things before hand can make a big difference in the success of the evacuation.

1. Where do we go?

Have 2 meeting places for an emergency, one outside the home and one outside the neighborhood (in case of emergency when your family is away from home).
Make notes in your phone or on cards in your wallet to remind you of where these meeting places are.
If you live in a hurricane area, know your community evacuation plan and practice driving it from your house. Also listen to the local radio for directions at the time of evacuation.
Plan ahead to go to a family or friend’s home in case of evacuation. Let these people know they are part of your plan so they can prepare as well.

2. What should we take with us?

72 Hour kit (click here to see how to put one together)
Important Personal Documents (click here to learn how to store these items)
Keep extra gasoline at home to fill your tank before you evacuate
If you have time, grab other personal items such as computers, scrapbooks, heirlooms, etc.

3. What do I do with my animals?

Take them with you. If you can take animals with you (especially a dog or cat), do that. If you have a trailer, you might be able to take some livestock as well.
Move them to a safer location. If you have a barn or building away from harms way, you can put them there with extra food and water.
Release them. If you can’t take care of them, the most humane thing to do is to release them and let them find their own way to safety.
Identify them. Use branding or other ways of identification so that you might find them later. Hopefully, when you come back to your home you can find some of your animals that didn’t go too far.

4. How will I communicate with my family?

Phone. Cell phones may or may not work, depending on the situation. You can buy wind up or solar chargers to keep your phone charged for a longer time.
Text. Sometimes when a phone call can’t get through, a text can. It takes less bandwidth to send a text than to make a phone call.
Email. Email is a good way to communicate your plans with others in times of emergency.
Social media. Making a post on social media lets everyone on your friends list know that you are safe and okay during an emergency situation.
Landline. While cell phone service may be out, landline phones (if you still have one) may still work, even during a power outage.

Are you worried about possible emergency evacuations in your area?

Make your evacuation as smooth as possible with this FREE PDF packet. It includes an evacuation plan worksheet, tips and printable child emergency identification cards.

7 Evacuation Plan Tips To Help You Stay Calm in a Time of Crisis

1. Involve everyone in making the plan.

This plan includes everyone in your family, so get them all involved in making it.
You can have kids draw it out or make a list of items they want to take with them.
You can allow kids to add a couple of fun items to their 72 hour kits.
The more fun you make it, the more they will remember it when the time comes to take action.

2. Gather important phone numbers.

I don’t know about you, but ever since I got a cell phone I have been terrible at remembering phone numbers.

Make sure that everyone (including kids) have important phone numbers programmed in their phones.

Also, make a written list to keep with your important documents in case your phone dies and you don’t have access to them anymore.

3. Teach young children vital information in case they get lost.

Young children should know their:

Full name
Home address
Phone number of parents
Parents’ full names

You can also put this information in their backpacks when they are at school or other activities.

4. Make sure everyone in the family knows where emergency items are stored.

While making your evacuation plan, go thru the house and show everyone in the family where important things are stored.

That way, if only some of the family members are home when an evacuation is called for, they will know what to grab and where it is located.

Important emergency items may include 72 hour kits, important documents, extra cash, first aid kit, etc.

5. Know how to turn off water, gas and electricity in your home.

In an evacuation situation, you may want to turn off your utilities before you leave your house.

All adults and teens should know where these are located in your home and how to turn them off.

This could prevent explosions, flooding or other extra problems while you are gone.

6. Keep your vehicles at least half full of gas at all times.

You’ve seen the stories on the news. Long gas lines are always present during an evacuation situation.

If you have at least half a tank of gas in your vehicles at all times, you will probably be able to drive farther out of harms way than your neighbor before you have to get gas.

This can save you time and money, as gas price gouging is sometimes present during emergency situations.

If you are able to store gasoline to fill your car before you leave (as mentioned above), you would be able to get even farther.

7. Make extra plans for those with disabilities

If you have a family member that needs extra time or medical accommodations, make sure you account for those in your evacuation plan.

Do you have extra medication on hand?
Do they need special transportation?
Do they have extra equipment they need to take such as oxygen tanks, wheel chairs, etc.?

These ideas are great, but they won’t work to keep your family safe unless you follow thru with their answers.

So click on the box below and download the free PDFs that will help you complete your emergency evacuation plan.

Are you worried about possible emergency evacuations in your area?

Make your evacuation as smooth as possible with this FREE PDF packet. It includes an evacuation plan worksheet, tips and printable child emergency identification cards.

Then, once you have it written out, plan a family activity where you can go over the plan and what needs to be done to implement it during an emergency.

If you have an evacuation emergency, you won’t have much time to get these things together. And you don’t want to be fighting people at the grocery store or the gas station for the things your family needs.

So prepare your family now and save yourself time and hassle later. It is worth the effort to keep your family safe in an emergency. You got this!

Here are the links to the other posts in this series for further reading:

3 Home Emergency Plans Your Family Needs to Create

Create A Fire Emergency Plan to Prepare Your Family with Free Printables

Create A Stay At Home Emergency Plan for Your Family with Free Printables

Have you experienced an evacuation before? What did you forget to take that you wish you had? Let us know in the comments below. And if you found this post helpful, please share. Thanks!

Are you worried about possible emergency evacuations in your area?

Make your evacuation as smooth as possible with this FREE PDF packet. It includes an evacuation plan worksheet, tips and printable child emergency identification cards.

3 Home Emergency Plans Your Family Needs to Create

by Julie Gropp

It’s September, which is National Emergency Preparedness month.

We can’t plan for everything, but we can plan for the most likely thing.

So this month, each week I am going to discuss a home emergency plan in detail with printable information you can use to accomplish each task.

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This week, I want to cover each plan broadly, so you get an idea of what we will be discussing the rest of the month.

Why are making emergency plans important?

As we get started, I want you to think about where you live.

What natural disasters have happened there recently?

What natural disasters have happened there historically?

If you have lived anywhere for very long at all, you know what disasters you might come in contact with.

Let’s look at a map of the United States and how different areas were affected by disasters in 2017.

As you can see, almost every part of the country was affected by disasters in 2017, and these are only the really big ones.

There are other small fires, droughts, tornados and floods that aren’t on this map.

In our area, in the last 2 years, we have had a drought, forest fires and then record amounts of snow that closed down roads and flooded rivers. I don’t think they amounted to billion dollar disasters, but they reaked havoc here at home.

So when you think of your home, what disasters do you have in your area? How can you make these things easier to deal with by being prepared ahead of time?

Each week this month, I will add a post about each one of these plans and come back here to add the link so you can follow along. But first, an overview of what’s to come. . .

3 Home Emergency Plans Your Family Needs to Create

1. Your Evacuation Plan

If you have to leave your home in an emergency evacuation, you need to make a plan of where to go, what to take and how to meet up with other family members.

Having a discussion about these things before hand can make a big difference in the success of the evacuation.

Where do we go?
What should we take with us?
What do I do with my animals?
How will I communicate with my family?

Leaving your home without knowing what will happen to your belongings can be traumatizing for you and your family. But preparing ahead of time can help you remember the big stuff and help you make the best out of the situation.

2. Emergency Fire Plan

As many of you know, we lost our home to a house fire in 2014. You can read the blog post about it here —> When the Unthinkable Happens: Lessons from a House Fire.

We were on vacation when our home burned down, so we didn’t need our emergency fire plan.

But that isn’t the case most of the time, so an emergency fire plan is a way to prepare your family for a house fire and help them know what to do if it happens.

We go thru your home’s exits and how to make an escape plan.
How to choose a meeting place.
How to prevent home fires.
How to keep your family safe in a fire.

A house fire is something I never thought would happen to us. It was devastating to us and it took us several years to recover.

I hope you don’t ever need this plan, but if you do you will be happy you took the time to prepare ahead of time.

3. Stay At Home Plan

The last plan we will be discussing this month is the stay at home plan.

Not all emergencies require you to leave your home.

Examples of a stay at home emergency may be power outage, blizzard, tornado, severe storms and flooding.

This plan will help you when you need to stay home during an emergency without outside help for an extended period of time.

We will discuss the 6 things you need to have at home to be ready for this type of emergency.

Food storage
Water storage
Heat
Light
Communication
Security

We will also discuss alternative electricity sources and how to use them in the most efficient way possible.

Staying home has its own problems, so be prepared if you have to hunker down for a few days or weeks until the emergency has passed.

As we discuss these 3 home emergency plans this month, I hope it allows you to feel more safe and prepared in case of emergency.

Your preparedness and calm manner can help others in and out of your family in a time of crisis. After all, the more we are prepared the more we can help others too.

So stay tuned the rest of the month as we explore these 3 home emergency plans in much more detail, including printables to help us complete the task.

Here are the links to the other posts in this series for further reading:

Create Your Family Emergency Evacuation Plan with Free Printables

Create A Fire Emergency Plan to Prepare Your Family with Free Printables

Create A Stay At Home Emergency Plan for Your Family with Free Printables

Do you have any emergency plans prepared for your family? Let us know in the comments below. And if you found this post helpful, please share. Thanks!

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12 Homemade Pickle Recipes to Preserve Your Cucumbers

by Julie Gropp

Some years are better than others in the garden. Weather, personal problems and pests can be a big factor in whether or not your garden thrives from year to year.

If you have an abundant amount of cucumbers in your garden, you can only eat so many raw. You need to do something to preserve the rest for winter.

Here is where a great pickle recipe can come in. It can take that garden fresh cucumber and keep it yummy for much longer.

So today, I want to share with you 12 recipes that will help you preserve the harvest long after summer is over.

12 Homemade Pickle Recipes to Preserve Your Cucumbers

Easy Bread and Butter Refrigerator Pickles Recipe @ Whole Fed Homestead

Refrigerator Garlic Dill Pickles Recipe @ Flour On My Face

Spicy Overnight Pickles @ Snappy Gourmet

Jalepeno Garlic Basil Pickles @ Dizzy Busy and Hungry

Grandma’s Dill Pickle Recipe @ Lovely Greens

Fire and Ice Pickles @ I Believe I Can Fry

The Best Sweet Pickle Recipe @ A Modern Homestead

The Best Classic Kosher Dill Pickle Recipe @ Tiaras and Tantrums

Homemade Claussen Pickles Copycat @ Amanda’s Cookin’

Basic Quick Pickles @ The Pioneer Woman

Mom’s Refrigerator Sweet Pickles @ A Farmgirl’s Dabbles

Lacto Fermented Pickles @ Practical Self Reliance

Don’t those just look yummy! I can’t wait to pickle some cucumbers this year.

I hope these recipes inspire you to try something new with your pickling this year. I always love finding a new favorite recipe. Happy pickling!

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Emergency Preparedness for Beginners: One Week of Food and Water

by Julie Gropp

Sometimes simple is the only way to go.

Because we are all busy with our everyday lives and taking on just one more thing can be hard.

I get it. You are busy. I am busy. We are all busy.

Maybe busier than we need to be, but I’ll save that for another post.

So in this post, I’m not going to get fancy. I am just going to tell it to you straight.

Are you ready?

If you don’t have one week of food and water stored in your house for emergencies, you are doing your family a disservice.

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Why do I think this is such a big deal?

Having enough food and water for your family for 1 week is the MINIMUM you can do to help your family in times of emergency.

I’m not talking about months or even a year of food and water storage. 7 days is all I am asking for. You can do this, you just have to make it a priority.

What kinds of emergencies?

Sickness

Job Loss

Accident or Injury

Power outage

Natural disasters

What kinds of food?

I’m not talking about organic, real food. I’m talking about things you can eat to survive for one week.

These may not be things you eat regularly, and they don’t even have to be healthy.

After all, you don’t plan on eating them for that long.

They should be non perishable or at least shelf stable for several months.

Some easy to store foods include:

Canned vegetables, meats, soups and meals.

Freeze dried foods or MREs.

Granola bars, beef jerky or protein bars.

Ramen noodles or boxed mac and cheese.

PopTarts, oatmeal packets or dry cereal.

Crackers, peanut butter or tuna packets.

How much food do I need for 1 week?

This depends on the size of your family. You usually want to shoot for about 2000 calories a day per person, depending on the size, age and activity of the person.

My teenage boys eat much more than I do. They eat several servings of a food, so I can’t go by servings alone.

And I don’t want to skimp on their meals because they will probably be doing a man’s share of manual labor in an emergency situation.

Whatever amount your family normally eats in a day, multiply by 7 to get an accurate amount of food.

How much water do I need for 1 week?

It is commonly accepted that you should store 1 gallon of water per person per day for drinking and cooking.

You may want to store more if you are using it for bathing or washing dishes/clothes.

You can store water in small water bottles, 7 gallon jugs or large 50 gallon barrels. Whatever you have room for in your home.

Don’t try to get fancy:

You don’t need to make a complicated meal plan for your emergency food storage.

Here is an example of a simple meal plan for a full day of food:

Breakfast: 1 PopTart pack

Lunch: Canned Tuna and crackers, canned fruit

Dinner: 1 Box Kraft Mac & Cheese, canned green beans

Snack or Dessert: Granola bar

Multiply this by 7 and then by the number of people in your family.

Of course, you can mix it up if you want. You may not want to eat the same thing every day for a week.

But don’t over think it. The more complicated you make it, the more likely it won’t get done.

Get to the store:

Once you have your list, get to the store and get it this week!

If you have a Costco or Sam’s club near you, you can get these things in bulk to save money.

If not (we don’t have those things close to us either), just go to your local WalMart or grocery store and pick up what you need.

Don’t wait for a sale! Get it this week!

These things aren’t that expensive. Get the store brand to save money.

You don’t want to be going to the store at the last minute with everyone else. That is when we see empty shelves and price gauging. Do it now!

Peace of Mind is worth it:

Once you buy and store one week of food and water in your house for emergencies, you can have peace of mind.

Peace of mind that if disaster strikes you have provisions to live on.

Peace of mind that if you get sick your family can fend for themselves.

Peace of mind that if you lose your job you don’t have to go to the grocery store for a week.

And that peace of mind can be worth its weight in gold. I promise you that.

Take the steps today:

What are the steps to get one week of food and water for my family?

Evaluate how much you need for your family.
Make a list of the items you want to buy to fulfill your goal.
Go out and buy enough food and water (or containers) for one week.
Store it in a dry, easy to access place in your home (this doesn’t have to be the pantry).
Rotate this food every few months to keep it fresh.
Enjoy your peace of mind.

This is just a drop in the bucket for emergency provisions that you could be making in your life, but it is a big, important step forward.

I want your family to be prepared for whatever lies ahead. Gathering one week of food and water is the first step. Get started today!

What do you like to store in your short term food storage? Let us know in the comments below. And if you found this post helpful, please share. Thanks!

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Winter Preparedness: 7 Tips to Stay Safe In An Emergency

by Julie Gropp

It’s November and some people are already experiencing winter weather.

We have been in a drought this year in SW Colorado, so we are hoping for a heavy snow year.

But when it comes to preparedness, winter can be the most dangerous time for emergencies.

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I wrote a post a few months back about losing power and what to do. You can check that post out here —> 10 Tips For What To Do When The Power Goes Out.

7 Tips to Stay Safe In A Winter Emergency:

1. Stay warm

This is probably going to be the most important part of this whole list. If it is freezing outside and your power goes out, warmth is going to be your most important priority.

Here are few things to think about and get ready for this winter, before disaster strikes:

Have a heat source that doesn’t require electricity. This could be a wood stove, fireplace, propane heater, etc.
Have extra blankets and sleeping bags to stay warm.
Seal off windows and doors to keep the warmth in.
Have extra clothes to wear to keep warm, including socks, coats and long underwear.
Have a stash of hand warmers (other camping hacks) to stay warm in your house.

2. Winter car kit

One of the worst things that can happen in a winter storm is to get stuck in your car on the side of the road. It’s a scary place to be.

But if you live in a place where winter storms are normal, it is highly likely that this will happen to you at some point.

In order to prepare for this situation, you need to put together a winter car kit to help you survive. Keep these things together in a basket or box in your trunk or backseat for easy access.

Items to put in your car kit:

Food: nuts and granola bars, canned fruit, pop tarts and other non-perishable snacks
Bottled water
Light: flashlight, glow sticks, solar lantern, extra batteries
Blanket
Warm Clothes: gloves, socks, coats, snow boots, hats, pants
Tools: jumper cables, ice scraper, shovel, flares or reflective triangles
Cat litter or sand for tire traction
Small First Aid Kit
Phone charger and/or solar charger to charge your phone

3. Take care of animals

Animals can take a beating in a winter storm. It may even be hard to reach them if you get alot of snow. Here are a few things you can do to help them out and keep them safe.

Keep water from freezing.
Provide shelter.
Bring them inside.
Add extra bedding.
Give them extra food.

I have a blog post on this topic, so if you want more information —> 21 Resources to Help You Keep Your Animals Warm In The Winter.

4. Keep pipes warm

One of the worst things that can happen because of a very cold winter is pipes bursting. What a mess!

Here are a few things to think about:

Unhook your water hoses and drain them before the first freeze.
Cover or insulate pipes that are not freeze proof to protect them from sub-freezing temperatures.
If you have a well, make sure it is insulated and covered in the winter.
Seal holes and cracks in the foundation of older homes with caulk or insulation.
Let a faucet drip if the pipes will be exposed to below freezing temperatures for more than a few hours.

5. Snow removal

Do you have a snow removal system in place in case you get a large amount of snow at once?

Right after a large snow storm, the emergency room can get visits with people over doing it on snow shoveling.

If you need to remove large amounts of snow, get a machine to do most of the work:

Snow blower
Tractor
Truck or four wheeler with a snow blade

If you must shovel the snow yourself, make sure and pace yourself. Shoveling is hard work and can wear you out quickly. Take breaks and don’t over do it.

6. Food/ water storage

Just in case you get snowed in your house for several days, you should always have emergency food and water storage available to use.

This could include quick meals you can eat without preparation or something you can cook without electricity.

Here are a few ideas:

Ramen noodles or boxed mac and cheese
Canned meals, fruits and vegetables
Snacks like crackers, granola bars and nuts
Beef jerky and freeze dried meals
Oatmeal packets and Poptarts

For more on quick food/water storage, check out this post —> Emergency Preparedness for Beginners: One Week of Food and Water.

7. Clear trees and limbs away from your house

One thing that can happen in a big winter storm is that heavy snow can weigh down trees and power lines.

If you have power lines near your house, there isn’t really anything you can do about that.

But you can trim trees around your home so that they don’t cause damage if they get weighed down by snow in the winter. The last thing you need is a hole in the roof or busted window from a branch that breaks and falls on your house.

If you are in an area that gets large amounts of snowfall every year (or every few years), it is important to be prepared. Extreme cold can be very dangerous, especially without protection from the elements.

I hope this list helps you get your family prepared this winter! You won’t regret it!

What do you do for winter preparedness? Let us know in the comments below. And if you found this post helpful, please share. Thanks!

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8 Ways to Get Your Kids Excited About Emergency Preparedness

by Julie Gropp

As parents, we often take on most of the emergency preparedness tasks ourselves.

But I think it is equally important to teach our children emergency preparedness skills as well.

How do we make emergency preparedness fun for kids? How do we get them excited about participating?

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I have come up with some ideas on this subject. I have teenagers, but I think most of these tricks will work on kids of all ages.

8 Ways to Get Your Children Excited About Emergency Preparedness

1. Practice with Drills

Kids attend drills all the time at school: fire drills, tornado drills, lockdown drills, etc. Why shouldn’t we do them at home as well?

You can make a game out of it by timing them to see how long it takes them to exit the house and get to their designated meeting location.

Practicing with drills helps kids become more comfortable with emergency procedures so that they might be more calm during an actual emergency.

2. Teach them outdoor survival skills

My boys do this with their boy scout troop, but parents can teach this information as well.

You can have a campout in your backyard or go on a family campout in the wilderness.

Skills such as gathering wood, building a fire, cooking on a fire, setting up a tent, basic first aid, etc are important for kids to know in emergency situations. It’s fun too!

3. Add fun things to 72 hour kits

72 hour kits (bug out bags) are bags you put together with enough food, water, clothing and supplies to survive for 3 days.

But besides these essentials, it would be fun for kids to add a few extras in their bag as well.

Some ideas would be: games, cards, word puzzles, candy or a small toy.

To find out more about 72 hour kits, you can read this post —> How to Make 72 Hour Kits to Get Your Family Prepared for Emergencies.

4. Make a game

Kids love to play games, so why don’t we use games to get them excited about emergency preparedness?

I love this post by Mom with A Prep —> 10 Pretend Games to Develop Preparedness Skills In Kids.

My favorite from that list is the We’re Going On A RoadTrip Game. What a great idea!

5. Review skills when something happens

Anytime something big happens (locally or in the news) that involves an emergency situation, use that as a teaching moment to discuss it with your kids.

This could be any kind of natural disaster, terrorist attack, school shooting or other emergency. Even the power going out can be a good time to teach your kids what they should do.

Kids will remember these things and hopefully recall what you told them if they are in an actual emergency.

6. Let them help you get prepared

Kids love to help, so let them help you get prepared.

Let them help pick out or stack food for food storage. Let them fill up bottles or gallon jug of water for water storage. They can help you put together 72 hour kits or power outage kits.

The more involved they are, the more excited they will be (especially young kids). That also gives them a sense of pride that they can help the family in an emergency.

7. Do weather experiments at home

Kids love science, so why not show them the science behind storms and natural disasters.

Inspiration Laboratories has some great resources on their site —> Weather related science projects.

8. Use entertainment involving disasters

Children love to watch movies and read books about natural disasters.

Some of our favorite weather movies are:

Twister, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, Dante’s Peak, and San Andreas.

For younger kids:

Frozen, Ice Age, and Eight Below

While watching these movies, we should discuss with our kids what we would do if those situations happened at our house.

We don’t do this to scare them, but to educate them and get them thinking of what they should do in different situations.

Emergency preparedness can be a scary thing for kids, but it doesn’t have to be.

By doing these things, we can open up a conversation with our kids about emergencies and what we should do if we have one at our house.

So try to involve your kids in your emergency preparedness efforts. I hope you will reap great blessings knowing that your kids are more prepared for whatever comes their way.

What would you add to this list? Let us know in the comments below. And if you found this post helpful, please share. Thanks!

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Your Family Emergency Evacuation Plan

1. Where do we go?

2. What should we take with us?

3. What do I do with my animals?

4. How will I communicate with my family?

7 Evacuation Plan Tips To Help You Stay Calm in a Time of Crisis

1. Involve everyone in making the plan.

2. Gather important phone numbers.

3. Teach young children vital information in case they get lost.

4. Make sure everyone in the family knows where emergency items are stored.

5. Know how to turn off water, gas and electricity in your home.

6. Keep your vehicles at least half full of gas at all times.

7. Make extra plans for those with disabilities

Why are making emergency plans important?

3 Home Emergency Plans Your Family Needs to Create

1. Your Evacuation Plan

2. Emergency Fire Plan

3. Stay At Home Plan

12 Homemade Pickle Recipes to Preserve Your Cucumbers

Why do I think this is such a big deal?

What kinds of emergencies?

What kinds of food?

How much food do I need for 1 week?

How much water do I need for 1 week?

Don’t try to get fancy:

Get to the store:

Peace of Mind is worth it:

Take the steps today:

7 Tips to Stay Safe In A Winter Emergency:

1. Stay warm

2. Winter car kit

3. Take care of animals

4. Keep pipes warm

5. Snow removal

6. Food/ water storage

7. Clear trees and limbs away from your house

8 Ways to Get Your Children Excited About Emergency Preparedness

1. Practice with Drills

2. Teach them outdoor survival skills

3. Add fun things to 72 hour kits

4. Make a game

5. Review skills when something happens

6. Let them help you get prepared

7. Do weather experiments at home

8. Use entertainment involving disasters

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