What emergency cold-weather gear should I prepare for a blackout? After a big disaster, if you don’t need to evacuate from your home, you will be lucky. How lucky? Well, it depends on how well you prepared. If there is a major power outage, a blackout on an unprecedented scale across town, can you ask […]
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What emergency cold gear should I prepare for evacuation? Say you’re caught in a major disaster. Let’s compare two different scenarios: one where you prepare and evacuate before the disaster strikes, and another where you evacuate afterward. These two situations will be very different, and when we prepare our emergency cold-weather gear for evacuation, we
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Why might we get hypothermia in an emergency situation? Surprisingly, keeping your body warm is tougher than you might think. In the worst case scenario, where you’re stuck out in the cold, you might suppose that simply keeping your body moving will help keep you warm, but that is not a good option. If you
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How much food should I carry during an evacuation? When you have to evacuate from your home, it will be a battle against time. Can you make a plan for evacuation from your home without panicking? Especially if you have kids. They will drive you to rush, to run away quickly, to hurry. Remember, haste
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What food should I carry for an evacuation? Evacuation? If and when it happens, it will be an out-of-the-blue occurrence. We might easily panic and have no idea how to quickly evacuate from our home. Just in case that emergency does happen, most people have already set up their emergency bags (or kits) in their
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