In Case Of Emergency, Read Blog

Daylight Savings Time ended today. So, after you’ve changed your clocks, VCR’s, etc., (and checked the batteries on your smoke alarms) why don’t you also take a moment to review the supplies in your emergency kit and go-bag (or put some aside if you have not already done so). You now have another hour in the day to do so, and it shouldn’t take that long. As the American Public Health Association campaign urges, “Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks” (your supplies not your 401k).

Personally, I feel there should be a special day every year on which Americans would check their kits as well as their emergency plans and focus in general on the topic of preparedness (or even just a high profile moment, such as half-time of the Super Bowl suggested by the former top federal preparedness official.) But in the meantime, it makes sense to piggyback emergency preparedness onto a twice-a-year event that is already imbedded in the lives of all Americans as the fire safety folks have done with the idea to use this day to check smoke alarm batteries.