Comments on: New Book Contest: “The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes And Why”; Entry Question: What Have You Done In The Last Year To Prepare Yourself Or Your Community?

By: Winners Of The ‘What Have You Done In Last Year To Prepare?’ Contest (And Their Entries) — Prize: “The Unthinkable” Book

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:16:00 +0000

[...] Last week’s The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes — And Why book contest asked: â€œWhat have you done in the last year to prepare yourself, your family, your workplace, your kids school or your community over last year?â€ Below are the winners with their entries; they will each receive a copy of the book’s new paperback edition. [...]

By: Francine and Steve

Francine and Steve — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:38:11 +0000

Entry: â€œWhat Have You Done To Prepareâ€¦
My husband and I have stockpiled food, planted a heirloom seed garden-canning later, packed emergency kits for the vehicles, packed BOBs including items for our 22mth and 3 yr old, planned escape routes if we need to leave our home, copied our financial papers, personal info, etc and gave it to relatives to hold in their safe, bought a water filter…continue to go over lists…

By: D.C. Subway Crash Underscores ‘Initial Responder’ Role Of Riders/Citizens In Emergencies, Need To Include Them More In Crisis Planning

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:33:08 +0000

[...] New Book Contest — “The Unthinkable” / Entry: “What Have You Done To Prepare… [...]

By: Carlene

Carlene — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:07:42 +0000

We do have a stock pile of food and a safe place for everyone to meet. Please include me in your giveaway.
Thanks
Carlene
iluvreading(at)verizon.net

By: Connie-ToughTimes

Connie-ToughTimes — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:57:32 +0000

Because our home location is where extended family and good friends will travel to in a bug out situation, I know that I will need more preps than for just my family. I can’t do it all, so I have been educating my peeps via the internet info on preparedness and food storage. If they come, they can’t show up empty handed and I have made private lockers in my basement should they want to cache supplies. Also I have been burning up the ink on my printer to create a notebook on all kinds of info from canning, butchering, trapping, dental/first aid, you name it. Point is, should the lights go out, it wouldn’t do me much good to have all the wonderful survival info stored in my computor.

By: Dominic Bonacci

Dominic Bonacci — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:25:51 +0000

I had the texting feature disabled on my phone (since I was getting charged for “wrong number” texts — texts sent to me accidentally) but learning how text messaging may be the only form of communication that works in a disaster (because of it’s low bandwidth use) I had it turned on again.

By: BRB

BRB — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:35:38 +0000

I have started to collect items for a 72 hour kit and a car emergency kit. Continued to practice on the gardening skills!