Once again, around the blogosphere, conversation has turned to emergency planning.  Of course, September is National Preparedness Month.  Over on Wise Bread, they’re discussing stocking up food for an emergency.  So far, it sounds like readers have anywhere from enough food for the rest of the week to enough food for a few years.  I’m [...]

Quick!  There’s a fire alarm going off right now!  What do you grab?

I’ve thought about this at home, but at work is a different story.  Earlier this week, we had a fire drill.  It wasn’t like grade school where we know it’s coming.  We had no idea, but it became pretty clear that it was [...]

I have written before on the benefits of emergency planning, but after the events of the past few weeks, I think it doesn’t hurt to discuss it yet again.  For people who live in areas threatened by hurricanes and wildfires, this is an easy question to answer, but I think that we should probably all [...]

Over the past week, I spent some time talking with a coworker about disaster preparation. We got on the topic while discussing rising food costs. He commented that he and his wife have around a 3 month supply of food and water stocked up in their basement because they’re a little bit afraid of living [...]