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Practical Steps to Preparing a Family for TEOTWAWKI, by Mitch D.
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
I didn’t know it at the time, but my introduction to preparedness came in 1999 when I sat at a large table with about 15 other men in a small town café for our weekly bible study. A small portion of these men were worried about Y2K and urged others to prepare. I thought they were “nuts.” I did respect them as Christian men, however, and prayed for guidance. Looking back, I was a squared away 24 year-old but was still spiritually immature. At that time in my life, I felt no urging by the Lord to prepare for Y2K.
About ten years later in the middle of a bitterly cold 2009 winter night, the power went out in my newly-built home. My home, at the time, ran completely on electricity with no form of back-up heat. I was lucky to have in-floor heat on both levels of my home, but the wind was howling that night, as the temperatures outside kept dropping and eventually hit 30 below zero. With the wind chill effect, it was probably near 60 to 70 below. My kids didn’t like how dark the house was, even though we had flashlights on hand for each of them. I put my four children to sleep early and piled on some extra blankets. At 7:00 p.m. it was 60 in the house and I wasn’t worried as my new home was well-insulated and built tight. I went to call my parents, who own the 20 acres bordering the western boundary of our place. Our phones in the house, however, all depended on electricity so I decided that my call could wait until the morning. When I went to bed at 11:00 p.m. it was now 50 in the house and I just assumed the power company guys were having a hard time in the wind and cold. I woke up in the early morning and noticed that it was about 40 degrees in the house and still no electricity. I was now a little uneasy as I didn’t need pipes freezing up on me. At 7:00 a.m. I bundled up the kids and took them next door where I knew my dad had a gas fireplace. To my surprise, his electricity was up and running. To make a long story short, it was just my place without power as the wires from the transformer came loose when my box moved from winter heaving. I called the power company and they had my box fixed within the hour. Nothing bad had happened, but it did get me thinking about a few questions:
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Advantages of Solar Power for Emergency Preparedness
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
There Are Several Advantages of Solar Power For Emergency Preparedness, More Self Sufficient Lifestyle, Energy and Fuel Concerns, also Money Saving Benefits. Power outages are common following many storms, emergencies, and disasters. Therefore, using solar emergency power as a backup power solution, makes good common sense for survival preparedness concerns.
Preparing to be more self sufficient and learning how to live off the land, are both rapidly gaining recognition and popularity, and for good reason. Energy bills are soaring higher and higher, many people are concerned about the rising expenses and the unstable economic conditions we are facing.
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Preparing Your Organization for Disasters, by N.C.L.
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Where will you be when the earthquake happens? The tornado? The riot? The terrorist strike? The (fill in the blank). If you work or go to school, you spend about 40 hours every week in a non-home environment. Probably more if you count commute time, shopping, recreation, library time, extra-curricular activity time, and so forth. Even if you are a serious prepper, that means about 25% or more of your time each week is spent in environments away from your primary support systems. That also means that there is about 1 chance in four that a disaster will happen while you are in one of these other environments. You will have access to what you have with you and what someone (employer, school, etc.) has put in place for you in such emergencies. Having been employed for 40 years and a student for 20+ years before that I can tell you these other environments have virtually nothing in place to provide for the survival, let alone comfort, of those on premises. Read the remainder of preparing your organization for Disasters.
Sharing Your Faith After TEOTWAWKI, by D.P.B.
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
I can’t help but notice there being a correlation between preparedness and Christianity. Most people I know who are getting involved, and most of the stuff I read on line is written by Christians. The one thing I haven’t read too much about though is what it will look like to share our faith after a collapse. In the grand scheme of eternity being able to grow in your relationship with Jesus and help others do the same is the most important part of being prepared.
A friend of mine used to own and operate a Christian bookstore. His family bought it in the summer of 2001 and did okay. They were able to make ends meet and they were satisfied knowing they were helping people get closer to God. For the rest of that year following the 9/11 attacks my friend said he was pulling in nearly $10,000 a day. That was more than they made a month during that summer. He told me that people think more about God when tragedy strikes and we are reminded why we need Him.
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4th Anniversary — Katrina Communications: Doomed to Repeat!
Saturday, August 29th, 2009Striving to right communication wrongs of past natural disasters.
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast area of Texas causing an estimated $81.2 billion in damages. Despite this devastating impact, more than a 1/3 of that area’s residents still say that they don’t have an emergency communications plan in place. Here at WeAreSafeAndSound.com, we working to make sure that all citizens have a way to get in touch with friends and family when it matters most.
As the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina passes, we are surprised how few people have not taken the time to set up a disaster communications plan. Nothing is worse than not being able to reach your loved ones during a natural disaster.
During Hurricane Katrina, people in the impacted areas experienced (more…)
