This is an emergency 3…
Check out my emergency preparedness brain dumps one and two…
OK, supplies are stocked and food is on the shelves. What else is missing? Oh yes, things that I’ll lump together as miscellaneous emergency preparedness.
PLAN.
As in have one. The hubby and I have talked about the variety of scenarios of where we could be if a natural disaster went down. I’d most likely be at work on Capitol Hill and he’d be at home or in Georgetown. Worse came to worse, we could both walk home fairly easily. I keep an old pair of tennis shoes and socks in my car, just in case. I’d also snag my sister and her BF who live nearby my office if they were around. Getting home ASAP makes the most sense since it’s where all of our emergency ‘ish is.
If it looked like we couldn’t stay in the city for long, then I’d consider a trek over the pass (road conditions permitting) to my gal pal’s house in Eastern Washington.
DOCUMENT.
Thankfully, we live in the age of “the cloud.” I’ve got both hard copies and a thumb drive of these items below in our kit plus I have them stored cloud-style. These days, most everything is kept online but I wanted to be sure to at least have some of our basic account information handy.
- Passports
- Driver’s licenses
- Emergency contacts – do you know anyone’s phone number these days?
- Bank accounts
- Passwords
- Health insurance and medications
- Mortgage account and copies of bills
- Photos
IN THE FUTURE.
This list could go on and on….if money weren’t an issue, I’d definitely look into retro-fitting our house so it’d be less likely to slide off the foundation. I’d also love to purchase some property outside of the city, which could be our out of town bug out location 🙂 or just a fun camping spot! I’d say the one realistic thing I could manage would be to snag a solar charger for our electronics. This one is on my list!
What am I missing? How do you stay prepared?
