Courtesy of Emergency Supplies Blog
No matter how safe you may feel in your neighborhood, you can never predict when disaster will strike. It’s vital to have both an emergency kit and a plan, and to be sure you and all your family members — even children — know how to use the items in the kit and understand your family’s disaster plan.
What you keep in that kit may differ a little depending on your family’s specific needs — like extra medications or supplies for common weather emergencies in your area — but here are several items the most basic emergency kit should have:
- Bottled water
- At least 3 days worth of food
- First-aid kit
- Glowsticks AND Flashlights (don’t forget batteries!)
- Blankets
- Battery-powered radio
- Emergency contact info
- Copies of important documents
- Change of clothes
- Extra set of car and house keys
- Spare set of contacts/glasses (I would be doomed without mine)
- Paper and pen
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