Emergency kit party
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tracytreefrog, berkeleyfarm, and wild_irises! You all rock.
So I had this idea a month or so ago, about how to motivate myself
and my loved ones to create disaster preparedness kits for our
homes. I planned an emergency-kit party.
How it worked was this:
1) I created a list of the things that ready.gov recommends for a
kit, then added a few things I thought were good ideas.
2) I opened up the party for ten kits. ObPoly, we made three kits --
two for our two-person household, and one for Carin's place. Next
time I will make a few for Guy's house. (Also ObPoly, two of the
attendees were one of Guy's sisters, and one of his oldest friends.)
3) For each kit, the attendee had to bring 10 of something on the
list. (For example, I brought can openers, sets of eating utensils,
and handwarmers; other things brought were food, paper towels/toilet
paper, vitamins, water/windproof matches, etc.) [Edit: I divvied the
list up and handed out only part of it to each person, so there
wouldn't be much duplication.]
4) I provided the containers (cheap coolers) and we divvied the
stuff up. I passed around some handouts from the ready.gov site, and
put a checklist in each kit. (I also chose to give my housekey to
the two folks who are my neighbors, just in case, and we discussed a
contingency plan for what to do if any of our houses becomes
uninhabitable -- essentially, we agreed to congregate at one or the
other of our houses if it came down to it and was doable.)
5) Then we schmoozed and ate and ate and schmoozed, andwild_irises gave
me a backrub and people gossipped about Usenet oafs, and a grand
time was had by all.
Anyway, it was a fun thing, and now we all have at least the
beginnings of an emergency kit for our homes. I recommend it.
tracytreefrog, berkeleyfarm, and wild_irises! You all rock.So I had this idea a month or so ago, about how to motivate myself
and my loved ones to create disaster preparedness kits for our
homes. I planned an emergency-kit party.
How it worked was this:
1) I created a list of the things that ready.gov recommends for a
kit, then added a few things I thought were good ideas.
2) I opened up the party for ten kits. ObPoly, we made three kits --
two for our two-person household, and one for Carin's place. Next
time I will make a few for Guy's house. (Also ObPoly, two of the
attendees were one of Guy's sisters, and one of his oldest friends.)
3) For each kit, the attendee had to bring 10 of something on the
list. (For example, I brought can openers, sets of eating utensils,
and handwarmers; other things brought were food, paper towels/toilet
paper, vitamins, water/windproof matches, etc.) [Edit: I divvied the
list up and handed out only part of it to each person, so there
wouldn't be much duplication.]
4) I provided the containers (cheap coolers) and we divvied the
stuff up. I passed around some handouts from the ready.gov site, and
put a checklist in each kit. (I also chose to give my housekey to
the two folks who are my neighbors, just in case, and we discussed a
contingency plan for what to do if any of our houses becomes
uninhabitable -- essentially, we agreed to congregate at one or the
other of our houses if it came down to it and was doable.)
5) Then we schmoozed and ate and ate and schmoozed, and
wild_irises gave me a backrub and people gossipped about Usenet oafs, and a grand
time was had by all.
Anyway, it was a fun thing, and now we all have at least the
beginnings of an emergency kit for our homes. I recommend it.
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