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Your home emergency plan

ca Offline Grant Lamontagne

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Your home emergency plan
on: May 09, 2024, 02:48:54 AM
I just found this link to developing an emergency plan and I thought I'd share it.

https://brnw.ch/21wI5xu

How many of you have an emergency plan, and how many of you have made sure everyone around you knows it inside and out?

I hope no one ever needs it, but it's well worth thinking about.

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Re: Your home emergency plan
Reply #1 on: May 09, 2024, 05:22:11 AM
If I need to evacuate my house, my plan is to grab my "go bag" (which contains most of my knife and multi collection and a few important documents) and the pets and just...well, go. Assuming the water doesn't go to smurf, I can sustain myself in the house for ten days, as the linked article suggests. Clearly I have some rethinking and plan modification to do.
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Re: Your home emergency plan
Reply #2 on: May 09, 2024, 06:32:00 AM
We have a few solutions in place to bug-in but haven't fully fleshed out evacuation though we do have a small bug-out bag in our SUV.
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Re: Your home emergency plan
Reply #3 on: May 09, 2024, 09:31:44 AM
That's a good resource for Canadians.  In the U.S. https://www.ready.gov/ will start you on disaster planning.  In addition, every state and local government has their own disaster planning and emergency management sites and everyone should look them up.  Here's some from Florida for example since it is hurricane preparedness week and hurricane season starts next month.
https://www.myflorida.com/search_results.html?q=emergency+preparation#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=emergency%20preparation&gsc.page=1


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Re: Your home emergency plan
Reply #4 on: May 09, 2024, 03:17:47 PM
We really don’t have a plan, besides a grab and just go, get the animals out which the to dogs did yesterday, (I had to chase them for a block before someone helped and held them so I could hook them up and bring them home) but we’re mostly inside people, since we don’t drive we’re limited, we already have had a state wide emergency, the whole state lost power for over a week, I mean we had water, we had fuel for our furnace, but it wouldn’t work without electric, thus the same with the water heater, so yeah I ended up taking a very cold shower, but as for the food in the fridge I packed shoebox size plastic containers with snow and put them in the fridge, by morning they would be pretty much liquid so I tossed it down the drain and packed them again, as for cooking we had the grill outside, or this is where camp gear comes in handy, we had a propane two burner, and I must say spam, eggs, and mac/cheez are a must! And for keeping the place warm, again camp gear comes in handy, we closed off half the place and pretty much lived out of two rooms, all four of us, kids slept in sleeping bags on the floor, of course we got the bed and our own heater called the dog since he slept on the bed, but the little propane heater would run for a little to keep it warm, then I would cut it off, day wasn’t too bad I’d even open a window to get some fresh air for a little, but we made it,,
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