6 Weeks to Personal Preparedness; Week 2

What to do:

1) Assemble your important paperwork in one location; birth certificates, passports, insurance papers, wills, list of medications and on. If you have to evacuate in a hurry you will want to know that you can grab everything quickly.

2) Identify important medications and vitamins for your household and think about getting 1 month to 3 months extra.

3) Set aside a bag for your house and your car for use to carry essential supplies in cause you have to make a quick evacuation. If you have multiple people in your household they can all have their own bag. We will refer to this bag as a ‘go bag.’

What to buy:

1) First aid kit for your house and your car. You can make your own first aid kit, which is less expensive than buying a premade one; yet it can be more time consuming to make your own. This first aid kit should be small enough to go in your go bag if need be. Depending on the age of the people in your household you can have some basic first aid items in every go bag.

2) Below is a starting list for a first aid kit.

2 absorbent compress dressings (5 x 9 inches)

25 adhesive bandages (assorted sizes)

1 adhesive cloth tape (10 yards x 1 inch)

5 antibiotic ointment packets (approximately 1 gram)

5 antiseptic wipe packets

4 packets of aspirin (81 mg each) (of a small bottle of aspirin)

2 blanket (space blanket)

1 breathing barrier (with one-way valve)

1 instant cold compress

5 pair of nonlatex gloves

2 hydrocortisone ointment packets (approximately 1 gram each)

Scissors

1 roller bandage (3 inches wide)

1 roller bandage (4 inches wide)

5 sterile gauze pads (3 x 3 inches)

5 sterile gauze pads (4 x 4 inches)

Oral thermometer (non-mercury/nonglass)

2 triangular bandages

Tweezers

10 electrolyte mixes; example is Emergency or crystal light

Couple of hand warmers

First aid instruction booklet