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72 Hour Kit Rotation
Many products and services bill themselves as a "set it and forget it" way of getting things done. Adequate preparedness, however, clashes with this approach. Knowledge fades, food spoils, and medicine expires. One of the most important aspects of preparedness, then, is a refresh or rotation of your supplies or knowledge.
Protection Planning for Family and Property class
The city of <a href="http://www.salemcity.org/">Salem, Utah</a> has begun offering Emergency Preparedness classes on various topics. October's <strong>Emergency Preparedness Class</strong> is on Protection Planning for Family and Property. It will be held on Saturday, October 10th, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Salem Community Center, 151 West 300 South in Salem Utah. We are fortunate to have Dave Acosta come and teach this class.<br /> <!--more-->
Emergency Preparedness Priorities
<strong><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2205" src="/images/uploads/2009/06/scenery-mountain.jpg" alt="mountain scenery" width="240" height="164" />Our physical needs prioritized - The Rule of 3's</strong>:
Electricity During an Emergency: Solar Power Generation
Electricity During an Emergency: Solar Power Generation
Survival Book Review: One Second After
I've just finished reading One Second After by William R. Forstchen - I received it two days ago - I couldn't put it down. This is an excellent book that I fully recommend every Survivalist/Prepper/Anyone Else read. Seriously, this book is one of those that will help to open people's eyes to just how fragile we are and just how stinkin' hard it is going to be to survive TEOTWAWKI.
Evacuation Kits - 72 Hour Kits/BOBs/G.O.O.D. Bag Management
It seems that every time I inventory my preps I find things that are missing. It's usually something like that one time when my wife needed to send a couple water bottles to school and the easiest thing to grab was a couple out of a 72 Hour Kit, then we forgot to replace it.
As my Garden Grows - So do my weeds!
My new garden is nearly a quarter acre, I had forgotten just how many weeds show up in a brand new garden!
Evacuation Preparedness List Review part 3
<img class="alignright" src="http://interwork.sdsu.edu/fire/photo_gallery/images/jgfire213021x011.jpg" alt="" width="334" height="197" />This is the fifth installment of the Evacuation Preparedness Kit Series. The first post, on <a href="../2009/06/ready-for-anything/">Evac Prep Basics</a> is here, and the second post, which introduces the <a href="../2009/06/ready-for-anything/">Evac Prep Master List</a> is here. The third post, and the <a href="../2009/06/evacuation-preparedness-categories/">first post on the list review is here</a>. This post will pick up where we previously left off in reviewing the categories on the Master List.
Evacuation Preparedness List Review part 2
<img class="alignright" src="http://kalthoffonthefence.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ken-traffic-3.jpg" alt="" width="336" height="248" />This is the fourth installment of the Evacuation Preparedness Kit Series. The first post, on <a href="../2009/06/ready-for-anything/">Evac Prep Basics</a> is here, and the second post, which introduces the <a href="../2009/06/ready-for-anything/">Evac Prep Master List</a> is here. The third post, and the <a href="http://www.utahpreppers.com/2009/06/evacuation-preparedness-categories/">first post on the list review is here</a>. This post will pick up where we previously left off in reviewing the categories on the Master List.<!--more-->
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