Are you prepared for an emergency? Perhaps some of you feel you are, while others know you are drastically unprepared. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and the impending hit from Hurricane Irma, many of us may be asking ourselves how to step up our emergency preparation plans.
Typically my Weekend Wellness post is a sharing of finance, fitness, food, and fun, new recipes and featured articles from around the Internet. Today I wanted to share a round-up of posts on preparing for emergency situations instead. While it is always important, being prepared for an unfortunate crisis is on my mind more than ever right now. I hope you’ll forgive me for skipping the usual format and join me in taking steps to improve your emergency preparedness.
We have a home in Central Florida, and while I am concerned about it, that unease is nothing in comparison to my worry for the people in Florida and neighboring states, as well as areas already hit by the storms. But let’s face it, emergencies happen every day, and we often do not have a warning about them. Taking some time now to create a plan and assemble supplies will leave us better able to handle an unfortunate surprise later.
I know we’ve got more emergency preparation to do. Unfortunately, it’s too late to do anything but pray for our Florida home or our neighbors and friends there as we are over 1000 miles away. However, we can do better at our main home and with the help of some great articles I read recently we are.
September is National Preparedness Month
Please take some time to review these articles yourself and pass them along to family and friends. Take time now to shore up your finances, health, and home to help you handle future emergencies whether they be a storm, wildfire, accident, or other disasters.
Am I A Prepper? No, Just Prepared – The Retirement Manifesto
Hurricane Prep List – Stock Up and Prepare Your Home – Abbotts At Home
Everyone Must Prepare for Emergencies – Zero Day Finance
Why Do You Have A Panic Room? – Othalafehu
September is National Preparedness Month – National Weather Service
Preparedness Month 2017 – CDC Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response
Just a Few Things to Consider in your Emergency Preparations
Finance – Do you have cash readily available? An emergency fund? Adequate Insurance? Money for insurance deductibles?
Fitness – Could you walk miles to reach safety or find supplies? Are you able to carry supplies or a family member if necessary?
Food – Do You Have Food and Water Supplies to Last You 1 – 2 Weeks? Medications? Food for pets?
Fun – Say What?
Assuming everyone is safe and you are just waiting out a power outage or snow to melt, having activities to amuse the kids or even yourself will be helpful during the wait.
Please feel free to add your thoughts in the comments. Let us know what you’ve done or plan to do for your own emergency preparation so we can all learn more.
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Wishing everyone a safe weekend!
Be well,
Amy
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I have always wondered why there is not more crossover between the PF community and Prepping. These two hobbies(?) seem to have a lot in common.
They really do have much in common don’t they? You just reminded me of your Panic Room post. I’m going to add that to my list! Thanks Othalafehu!
Thanks for the shoutout, Amy! Hope everything ends up ok with your FL home. Be thankful you’re 1,000 miles away. Amazing to have two storms of this severity back to back, praying for those impacted.
Thanks, Fritz. Yes, you are right, I’m thankful we are safe here. Hope you will all be okay in Georgia as well.
It has been a harsh couple of weeks due to these storms. I hope and pray for everyone who is down in Florida. My in-laws live in Charleston and are heading up to stay with other relatives in Charlotte to be safe. Thanks for providing great info on how to be prepared and the list of other resources.
Sounds like a good plan for your in-laws to head to Charlotte, may they be safe.
Thanks for adding your prayers, Dave.
The one place preppers are better prepared is in having a firearm and ammunition. It seems the FI community doesn’t approve of having guns which seems strange to me. Having financial independence but having no way to protect your family seems contradictory to me. I’m not a prepper or a gun nut but I’ve been on the wrong end of an armed robbery and hostage event and I have a concealed carry permit and hand guns now. Once was enough.
That is an interesting difference between the two. Wow, that must have been a scary event! My husband also has a concealed carry permit and a few hunting rifles, but like you, he’s not a gun nut or prepper. I’m still learning to be comfortable around them. Thanks for stopping by, Steve.
It’s good that your in-laws came to Charlotte. I think we’re pretty much out of the woods, at least it appears so. I hope your FL home doesn’t suffer too badly.
Isn’t your Spartan Race coming up soon?
Ahh, I screwed up! That’s Dave’s in-laws not yours! Duh. No wonder I’ve been keeping a low profile. My head is not screwed on right.
🙂 Hope you feel better soon!
Yes, hopefully, you won’t see any terrible weather there. Thanks for the good thoughts on our home. It looks like a category 3 when it hits our area but the track looks further west now so we’ll see.
The race is tomorrow (Sunday) actually, however, I had to make a difficult decision yesterday to not participate. I injured my shoulder a few weeks ago and it hasn’t healed. While I can do some of the pulling activities I cannot do any pushing or high reaching. Definitely no burpees. I’m getting it checked out further the week after next. I’m really hoping we get an event schedule together for next Spring or Fall with the group that Vicki was trying to spearhead so I can meet this goal! In the meantime, I’m looking for a 5 or 10k race to participate in so that we at least do something this fall.
Sorry to hear about you dropping out of the race but you’re doing the right thing. Shoulder injuries are very tricky, even for the most elite athletes. Is John still participating?
Thanks Mrs. G. Yeah, shoulders are tricky. This seems to be an old injury from rock climbing that’s shown back up. I’m not even sure how I injured it this time. I did notice any pain until I was on the golf course of all things. It was bothering me a bit and then one drive during the middle of the round did me in.
John is not as we wanted to do it together. We are able to transfer our entries into a race next year. Just need to get healed and work our a good date with the other PF bloggers. If they decide to do a different type of race we may do both then.