Disaster Preparedness For Families
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Preparedness is a mindset. Preparedness is a way of life. Being a “prepper” scares some people and being a “survivalist” terrifies others. Well, it’s because someone has hijacked those terms and has spread misinformation.
Why?
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Well, there are many theories, but the important thing is not to answer why someone tries to make you feel like a nut job because you store a 3 month supply of food or because you have a rifle and pistol in your home. The important thing is that YOU are prepared and that you are teaching these same principles to your children regardless of whether you’re into boy scouts or girl scouts.
Preparedness planning should not only be useful in a disaster, but enrich your daily life. Increasing your situational awareness will cause you to see more beauty as well as more potential threats. Exercise will help you be more resilliant in a disaster, but will also burn off stress hormones and help you sleep better every day. Learning trauma skills and natural health care will allow you to treat yourself when there are no doctors available and it will put you more in tune with your body.
Preparedness planning should be realistic. I’m always amazed at the number of people I talk to who’s plan is STILL to “head to the hills” when “it” happens. I kind of laugh because if half of those people actually DO go to the wilderness, the wilderness is going to be hunted clear of food in no time. Then all the people will die…except for the handfull who actually know what they’re doing. The reality is, most people live in urban areas (even communities of a few thousand) and will have to survive disasters in those areas.
http://www.survivalistboards.com/ After a few false alarms, people become complacent with their disaster preparedness plans. Meaning, that they do not think …
