on Our globe is still warming up, those ice caps are still melting… You get the idea, we’re still talking about disasters, emergencies, and climate change here, folks! (As soon as they go away, we’ll stop, we promise.) We’re continuing the preparedness series today with an episode all about supplies! This week, we’re going to talk… Continue Reading Episode 003 – Prepare to… get supplied!
on Having what you need on hand before a disaster strikes can be easier than you think—but why do so many of us mess it up? (The answer is a level of surprising worthy of a clickbait title…) Bottled water? One of those hand-crank radio-flashlight combinations? Six months’ worth of military surplus MREs? A flamethrower? Picking… Continue Reading The Supplies Surprise
on The globe is warming up, ice caps are still melting, diseases are spreading, pollution is polluting, and the weather is more extreme every year. Jinkies! So what is a simple human to do? How can we prepare and make it through the next disaster? And the one after that? And the one after that? In… Continue Reading Episode 002 – Prepare to… be prepared!
on Disaster declaration, state of emergency, public health crisis. It’s a big ol’ mess. Between all the legal acts, the paperwork, the bureaucracy, it’s tough to unravel how exactly US disaster response works. Government officials and public personalities are talking about declarations and executive orders and the like as if everyone is supposed to actually know… Continue Reading Disasters, Emergencies, Public Health, Oh My!