Preparing To Survive A Natural Disaster

If you want to begin planning for disaster that might involve you or your family consider immediate natural disasters such as snow, ice or rain storms, hurricanes, earthquakes or tornadoes. These natural disasters strike the US regularly, and are often during the different seasons. You never know when or where they will hit, and often you have very little precious time, in order to get ready to make it through them.

Even when approaching disasters are made public on the radio, television or other media sources, many people put off getting supplies thinking the danger will pass without effecting them. Gearing up for disasters ahead of time will eliminate the fears of facing sold out shelves and not actually having the supplies you need during disasters for your and your family.

What To Stockpile When Getting Ready For Natural Disasters

Short term disasters such as tornados mean you may well be out of electricity for many days, and not have access to food or even drinking water sources. When planning for natural disasters, it is a good idea to look into providing alternate energy sources for your family should your have a short term outage caused by natural disaster events.

Water is one of the most key resources in a disaster situation. You can live without having any food for a number of days, but definitely not water. Plan to have at minimum a gallon of water per person in your household per day. To be geared up for a 72-hour event such as a cyclone, you should have at the minimum 3 gallons of water per person.

Water taken from a city water supplier can be stored without having to add anything at all to preserve it. If you have a well water source, boil it, and then add 1/8 of a teaspoon of bleach (avoid bleach that has perfume) to the water before putting it into a container for storage. The small amount of bleach will not harm you, and will remove pollutants that are present in the water and keep algae buildup from ruining your water supply. You need to wait at least 60 minutes before you drink this water.

Revolve your food sources that you store, to keep them fresh. Tinned goods can be kept on average approximately 18 months, but don't forget to examine the labels and include them to your regular food sources, when they draw near there expiry dates. When readying for disaster, stock up on shelf storage food products like peanut butter, canned meats and vegetables and dehydrated foods like freeze dried fruit. Crackers can make a really good choice over breads as they can last around half a year on the shelf.

Do not eat chilled foods after 4 hours without electricity, and dispose of any food in the freezer after couple of days and prepare for disaster by having a means to use the frozen food when electrical power is out.

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