Emergency Preparedness…My Nemesis
When Brad and I were first married, I put together a 72 hour kit and forgot about it for about…oh, 15 years. It was pretty frightening when I went through it about 1 1/2 years ago. I couldn’t imagine the stress of trying to live through an emergency on what I had in that big, heavy duffle bag.
About 1 1/2 years ago, I decided to go through some 72 hour kits that I had purchased for the five of us while living in Arizona. They all needed updating, and I had to make yet another one because we had since welcomed Abby into the family. After a lot of research and money, I felt that I had our family fairly prepared for an emergency…until we had a lesson on emergency preparedness in Relief Society. I wrote notes and added items to the kits, and finished with the feeling that we were “more” prepared for an emergency.
Until I went to a presentation by the State of Utah Earthquake Lady. I added more notes to my long list of things to buy and do and thought I had it all figured out…until we had “another” lesson at church that took up both the Sunday School and Relief Society hours. I took even more notes and made even more plans.