Emergency Supplies
* Collect emergency supplies based on your worst days. Following a major disaster, an excess of smoke, excessive dust, molds, gas leaks, diesel from idling rescue vehicles, flashing lights, radio waves, electromagnetic fields (from generators, emergency lights, cellular phones, walkie talkies) and airborne toxins may trigger stronger reactions than you normally experience.
"Carry-With-You" Supplies to Keep with You at All Times
* Your emergency health information card. This should clearly explain your sensitivities, reactions, most effective treatments, and treatments which are harmful to you. Be specific, as environmental illness is not commonly understood. Remember that some reactions (disorientation, aphasia, panic) may be diagnosed and treated as something other than chemical sensitivity and you may not be able to describe your needs verbally.
* Medications including inhalers, epinephrine shots and anticonvulsant.
* Prescriptions and treatment authorization requests (T.A.R.s) from your doctor for unusual, orphan or hard-to-find medications.
* Supplements, herbs and homeopathic remedies.
Additions to Your Standard First Aid Kit
* Cotton bandages, gauze and paper tape.
* Hydrogen peroxide, zephiran chloride or your tolerated disinfectant.
Emergency Supplies
* Charcoal mask and/or respirator.
* Well aired-out (outgassed) plastic or steel tubing and ceramic mask or outgassed plastic mask for oxygen.
* Rolls of aluminum foil for covering chairs, your sleeping area, food, etc.
* Baking soda, stored in a waterproof container (for washing).
* Food that requires no cooking.
* Water. If storage in glass containers is necessary, consider using one quart bottles, stored inside layers of thick socks to protect the glass and enable carrying. Note: glass bottles will break if the water freezes and expands.
* A portable charcoal water filter.
* Before purchasing a fire extinguisher, find out about your sensitivity to the contents.
Evacuation Plan
* Know where the nearest safe places are, especially open air places, such as a beach upwind from traffic, refineries and fires.
* Avoid hermetically sealed shelters.
Checklist
* ________ Collect emergency supplies based on your worst days.
* ________ Collect "carry-with-you" supplies to keep with you at all times.
* ________ Make special additions to your emergency supplies as needed.
* ________ In case of evacuation, know where the nearest safe places are away from your home.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Remember the Voices of Warning on Preparation
Here are a few thought provoking quotes I ran across that should help us realize we have been admonished to be prepared and it is our chance to listen and follow the prophets.
“Should the Lord decide at this time to cleanse the Church–and the need for that cleansing seems to be increasing–a famine in this land of one year’s duration could wipe out a large percentage of slothful members, including some ward and stake officers. Yet we cannot say we have not been warned.” (Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p.265)
“Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earthquake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they somehow will be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.” (Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p.265)
Roger K. Young said, “The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel? It is hard for me to understand why or how so many good and wonderful people can discount what the prophets have said, again, and again, and concerning what will suddenly happen to the world in the future.
President Benson said: “The revelation to produce and store food may be as essential to our temporal welfare today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.” (CR October 1980, Ensign 10 [November 1980]: 33.) Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p.266)
Categories: Doctrine
Tags: calamities, Ezra Taft Benson, preparedness, prophet, quote, war
Lynn Heward from our ward as well as Lisa Schwartz and many other members of our stake shared preparedness information and how to's at the Bennion State Prepardness Fair this spring.
Lynn shared several ideas as well as some his favorite recipes as apart of his prepardness display and gave out samples of his cream of wheat cereal. simple foods to have on hand. \
DELICIOUS APPLESAUCE
Pick a big bucket (5+ gallons) of delicious apples off of my tree (or get any kind of apples off of any tree). Add water to fill in the spaces between apples (which washes them). Quarter the apples and cut out the core, putting the good part in another such bucket filled half-full with water. Drain the bucket with the cored and quartered apples. Pour the drained apples into a canner-size pressure cooker. Add a quart of water. Pressure cook the apples for 10-15 minutes. Open the pressure cooker and stir the contents. Dip the applesauce into jars and use a steam canner for bottling. Makes lots of quarts of delicious applesauce. (Per Lynn
Turn on hot water. Get good-sized microwave-safe bowl, and add 1 cup of hot water to it. Microwave on high for 1 minute, while you finely grind nearly 1/4 cup of wheat. Add 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon of salt and then the ground wheat to the bowl of water. Microwave another 33 seconds. Add enough milk to cool it and eat (or drink). Serves one.
OR
Turn burner on high. Turn on hot water. Put moderate-sized pot on burner. Put a quart of hot water in pot. Add less than a teaspoon of salt and cover pot. Finely grind less than a cup of wheat. When the water is almost ready to boil, turn off heat, stir in wheat, and cover. Set the table and dish up the cereal. (By Lynn Heward)
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