Are You Prepared?
How do you answer these questions?
- Do you have a first aid kit in your home? And car?
- Do you have enough food, etc. in your home to be able to not go out to the grocery store for 3 days?
- Do you believe if there is a disaster in your town that the government will be there to help you within 3 days?
- Do you have a meeting place away from home planned and every member of the family knows about it.
- Do you have a list of the drugs you are taking and know what they are for?
- Do you know where a copy of your mortgage or lease agreement is and can you get to it within 5 minutes?
- Do you have copies of every family member’s birth certificates and can get to it within 5 minutes?
- Do you know the phone numbers of family members if your smart phone goes dead?
- Do you have a place planned to go inside your home (or outside if a mobile home) if a tornado were to strike your home?
- Do you have change on you when you go out to use a payphone if your smart phone goes dead?
- Do you have enough money saved up for 6 months if you were to loose your job?
- Do you have enough medication to last for a month if you could not get a refill before then?
- Do you have entertainment in your home if the power was off and you could not leave your home for 2 weeks?
- Do you have enough food for your pets for a month if you could not get to the store?
- Do you have enough water in your home if you could not get water from the faucet for a couple of weeks?
- Do you know the emergency preparedness plan for your workplace?
- Do you have extra food and water at work if you have to shelter in place there?
- Do you have comfortable shoes at work and home if you should have to walk a distance?
- Are you mentally prepared if there were a disaster to strike your town?
- Have you mentally prepared you children if there were a disaster to strike your town?
- Do you have copies of your mortgage and birth certificates and titles of vehicles at a place not in your home?
- Do you have a living will?
- Does your family know your wishes to be or not put on life support?
- Do you have all credit card name, numbers and phone numbers written down in case your wallet gets stolen?
- Do you have all of your financial information in one place so your family knows what is due, etc. if you were in the hospital and could not pay them?