Do you think you can meet up with your family, smoothly, in an emergency? “It’s OK! We have cellphones. We will use them.” “Our school does drills constantly, so I’ll just pick up my kids when we have a real emergency.” “My parents’ house has a phone landline phone, but they don’t have a […]
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Can you imagine needing to use your long-term stockpile? When you imagine a long-term emergency, what do you think of? I don’t mean to belittle anyone’s suffering, but we’re not talking about mere earthquakes or hurricanes. Tornadoes spin up frequently, volcanos erupt, wildfires rage, but none of these are long-term emergencies. These disasters can be
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Why do I need to get alcoholic beverages for my long-term stockpile? Most people might not think of alcohol as a necessity, but which one do you think people would prefer to have in a long-term emergency: alcohol? or gold? I likely won’t need gold in a true emergency, but I might seriously want a
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Salt? Why should we set up salt in our long-term stockpile? Salt is essential for maintaining our health, and we can’t live without it. Quite often, we eat food without realizing that it contains salt. Maybe you have never checked the list of ingredients on your food’s packaging, and you failed to notice the salt.
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Wait a minute. How to start a fire in an emergency situation… Fire is the reason we can eat rice, meat, pasta, beans, etc. Even if we prepared everything in our emergency stockpile, without fire, we’re in trouble. Maybe eating cold food is OK for some situations, but having a fire is essential if you
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