Comments on: Emergency Plans and Disaster Kits

By: Jodi - Food Storage Made Easy

Jodi - Food Storage Made Easy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:23:25 +0000

Great question! This is definitely not our area of expertise, but I found a good page on the cdc website about this. Check out http://www.cdc.gov/features/MasksRespirators/ It sounds like anything that is marked n95 will be helpful. However, they do clarify that a mask alone is not enough and you need to continue to wash hands and use hand sanitizer for ultimate prevention protection.

By: Jodi - Food Storage Made Easy

Jodi - Food Storage Made Easy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:23:25 +0000

By: linzjen

linzjen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:57:35 +0000

Do you know which N95 dust mask series is sufficient for an emergency, or the swine flu? There are so many different kinds, I'm not sure which one I should get.

By: Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy

Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:24:57 +0000

Natalie, We’ll be revamping our 72 hour kit/disaster kit info pretty soon! We meant for those to be guidelines or samples of ideas but people like to follow them exactly so we will try to help with that! And give multiple options for 72 hour kit food as well.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:10:15 +0000

I think I need a bigger closet You might like to change the disaster kit list from 1 gallon a day to 2 liters. Thanks for your ideas. I will share what I decide to do later! Also, as far as the disaster kit list goes is that per person or per family? It would be nice to have a list like the one you have for the food for the non food items. Just a suggestion!

By: Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy

Jodi -- Food Storage Made Easy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:20:45 +0000

Natalie, Please forgive us, we both have small families still so we didn’t think of that. It does seem a little silly. We recommend doing the 72 hour kit water in 2-liter bottles and including 3 bottles per kit per person. So that would be 18 2 liter bottles, not 18 gallons (the 1 gallon per person per day is for your 2 week supply water storage). I’m thinking you could maybe put 4 bottles in a stackable plastic crate, and get 4 or 5 of those and stack them in the bottom of your closet maybe? You might also just have to have several of the rubbermaid totes. If you get them with lids they should stack nicely on top of eachother. We might need to start some discussion on food storage for large families

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:29:50 +0000

I am in the process of getting together my family 72 hour kits. I cleared out a large closet next to my garage for my family’s 72 hour kits ( 2 adults 4 kids) On the third babysteps list it says to gather all the materials and put into a large rubbermaid tote. Is this tote for one person? Or for the whole family? If it is for the whole family how are you fitting it all in there? I am suppose to have 1 gallons of water per person a day for my family (18 gallons!) and I am just wondering how I am going to fit all the food and diaster kit for everyone into this. Please help!!!!

By: jweiss08

jweiss08 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:40:31 +0000

Natalie,
No no no, I didn’t put all those papers in my car. The car kit went in my car (which is a mini version of all the things in the picture). The car kit is if I get stranded on the road or something. The rest of the kit and binder stay in my house and if I have to evacuate quickly, I have all of it ready to go. Good call on not putting those thing in your car. I don’t think that is too paranoid at all.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:16:52 +0000

I just wanted to make sure I was reading this correctly…did you put the important document binder (copies) into the car kit in the car? I am a little bit paranoid about my car getting stolen or broken into and having someone have access to all that important info. What do think of that? Am I just being to paranoid?

By: TracyinSC

TracyinSC — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:49:34 +0000

I learned a couple of days ago another good reason to be prepared. My youngest daughter had a seizure two mornings ago, and we spent all of two days in the hospital with her, trying to figure out what was wrong. We had only what we threw on in the rush to get to the ER. I did make a trip home to pick some things up since we had to spend the night.

I thought several times during the ordeal of things that would’ve been nice to have in my car. We also got in a car accident on the way home from the hospital (I know, awesome week!), and there were even more things that I wish I’d had.

I’ve been preparing my car emergency kit, and can see now how very helpful it will be to have that for numerous different reasons. Even if only to have a piece of home with you when you need it, that little piece will help bring a little peace (wow – that was incredibly cheesy. I apologize.).