Sanitation
kit add-ons: If you already have a sanitation kit, such as
a portable toilet, soap, hand sanitizer, disposable gloves, t.p., wipes
etc, you may choose to add a couple
other items to your kit. It might be a
good idea to add some mouse traps, rat traps and some fly traps. These would come in very handy after a
disaster where there is no sanitation as we know it and there may be a lot of
pests that spread disease. Get some now
while they are cheap and easy to find.
Kit idea
of the month: Fire starting kit
This would
come in handy for camping or for cooking and heating during a long power outage
or for a gift for the outdoor adventurer on your list. This kit is small, is expensive and easy to
assemble. Keep with your 72 hr kits or
your camping supplies.
Supplies for
kit: 1 9v battery, ball of steel wool
in a zip lock bag. Do not store it in
contact with any battery! Water-proof
matches, several small pieces of cardboard, a package of Wetfire fire starter,
a small set of flint and steel, 1 or 2 Bic lighters, and a small, plastic
tackle box to store it all. This idea is
from www.diypreparedness.net
Homemade
Fire starters using lint
Save lots of
lint from the clothes dryer for a while.
Save several card board egg cartons and buy some paraffin wax or re-use
some old candles. You will also need an empty #10 can and some tin foil. You can also use the same idea but stuff
empty toilet paper tubes with the lint instead.
1. Place a ball of lint in each cup of the egg
carton. Put egg carton on the tin foil
to protect the counter top. Put some
paraffin wax in an empty #10 can and place the can inside a larger pan that has
water in it. Heat the wax until it
melts. Pour melted wax over the balls of
lint in the egg carton. Fill each cup of
the carton mostly full. Allow a little
of the lint to stick up above the wax so you can light it. Let it sit until it is cool. You can then store the egg cartons as they
are in a plastic tub or tear apart into sections and then store. To start a fire you can light a piece of this
as kindling.
How many
ways can you cook without power?
Each family
needs to have AT LEAST 1 way to cook without electricity and have the fuel
stored for that method.
Food
Insurance
We all have
home owners insurance, car insurance, health insurance and life insurance. Have you ever thought of having food storage
as having “Food Insurance”? We cannot
live without food and any number of things could happen that would make it
harder to have enough in times of trouble.
Please think of food storage as food insurance.
5 day
kits and evacuation plans for your animals
If you ever
need to evacuate from your home, DO NOT LEAVE YOUR ANIMALS AT HOME! Government agencies as well as Animal Control
agencies and veterinarians now tell everyone to take your animals with you when
you leave. If you leave them at home
they may not be rescued, fed or watered for many days, if at all. Also, many people have left their animals at
home and have endangered their lives or the lives of rescuers demanding that
they go back for the animals. Your
bug-out or evacuation plans and kits need to include preps for your animals as
well. Well before any emergency you
should make a plan for where you would take your animals if you had to
evacuate. The best and easiest option
would be to take them to the home of a friend or family member who lives out of
the area of danger. You could also keep
a list of pet friendly motels or boarding places. For large animals, this is a little more
difficult. The best and most common
places for these animals would be fair grounds.
If you have 4 horses, you better have a way to evacuate them in a
trailer large enough to hold all 4 of them.
You do not want to make 4 trips.
Each kit
should contain:
A way to
contain or restrain your animal such as carrier, crate, pen, leash and
muzzle. Even the sweetest of dogs under
stress and surrounded by strangers can bite.
Have a muzzle just in case you need it.
Several
days-worth of food and a food dish and a water dish or bottle. You can get a bowl
made for trips or just buy a plastic inexpensive version of what you use at
home. You can keep most of these items
in a plastic tub all the time and label as the animal 72 hr kit.
Note on the
food: As pet food has a high fat
content, you will want to place food in a gallon zip-lock bag and
replace/rotate the food every 6 months.
Write a use-by-date on the bag.
This way the food in your kit will never be more than 6 months old.
Snacks and
toys to comfort them. An old towel or blanket if they like that.
Medications
that they take
Copies of
their most recent vaccinations. (Most
motels and boarding places require them).
ID such as
collars and more importantly, An AVID microchip in each pet. Even if your pet does not have a collar
anymore, any vet or animal control facility will be able to get your animal
back to you if you have them micro-chipped and your info is current. It is up to you to make sure that the Avid Company is notified when you
move or sell the animal. www.avidid.com
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