![HOW TO: Create A Hurricane Irene Survival Kit [tutorial]:
Cash: If the power is out, credit cards and ATM’s won’t work. Lots of cash can be the difference of your family drinking clean bottled water or sucking up muddy puddles with a straw.
Water: You should have at least a 3-day and preferably a 7-day supply of water (one gallon per person per day)
Food: Non-perishable items like canned and bottled food, granola, peanut butter, etc.
Communication Devices: Don’t forget your iPhone and chargers. That includes car chargers! If you have a Twitter account, then use it to communicate with friends and family. Tweets can be sent out quickly and will use less battery power than a phone call. Also grab any battery-powered radios you might have.
Light: Flashlights, glow sticks and plenty of batteries. Bonus points if you have a Wicked Lasers TORCH flashlight.
Baby Stuff: Formula, diapers, and other baby supplies.
Pet Stuff: Food, toys, medicine.
Kitchen Kit: Utensils, can opener, bottles, etc.
First Aid Kit: A basic first aid kit should do, but don’t forget to add some comfort medicines like Aspirin and antacid. Hurricanes can be pretty stressful.
Prescription Medicines: If medicine is helping keep you alive, then you will need it. Bring it.
Sleep Gear: Blankets, sleeping bags and pillows
Toiletries: Just because there’s a major storm outside, doesn’t mean you won’t have to poop. Toilet paper, toothpaste, etc.
Entertainment: Waiting out a storm can be pretty boring. An acoustic guitar, books board games land a deck of cards will help pass the time, especially if you’re evacuating. But if you have access to power, then by all means include your iPad, Nintendo DS, MacBook or Sony PSP. Just don’t let entertainment power take the place of survival power. Save you batteries for flashlights not video games.
Many of the above items are portable by nature. In case you need to leave in a hurry, have them packed up and ready to go before the hurricane hits.
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- Cash: If the power is out, credit cards and ATM’s won’t work. Lots of cash can be the difference of your family drinking clean bottled water or sucking up muddy puddles with a straw.
- Water: You should have at least a 3-day and preferably a 7-day supply of water (one gallon per person per day)
- Food: Non-perishable items like canned and bottled food, granola, peanut butter, etc.
- Communication Devices: Don’t forget your iPhone and chargers. That includes car chargers! If you have a Twitter account, then use it to communicate with friends and family. Tweets can be sent out quickly and will use less battery power than a phone call. Also grab any battery-powered radios you might have.
- Light: Flashlights, glow sticks and plenty of batteries. Bonus points if you have a Wicked Lasers TORCH flashlight.
- Baby Stuff: Formula, diapers, and other baby supplies.
- Pet Stuff: Food, toys, medicine.
- Kitchen Kit: Utensils, can opener, bottles, etc.
- First Aid Kit: A basic first aid kit should do, but don’t forget to add some comfort medicines like Aspirin and antacid. Hurricanes can be pretty stressful.
- Prescription Medicines: If medicine is helping keep you alive, then you will need it. Bring it.
- Sleep Gear: Blankets, sleeping bags and pillows
- Toiletries: Just because there’s a major storm outside, doesn’t mean you won’t have to poop. Toilet paper, toothpaste, etc.
- Entertainment: Waiting out a storm can be pretty boring. An acoustic guitar, books board games land a deck of cards will help pass the time, especially if you’re evacuating. But if you have access to power, then by all means include your iPad, Nintendo DS, MacBook or Sony PSP. Just don’t let entertainment power take the place of survival power. Save you batteries for flashlights not video games.
Many of the above items are portable by nature. In case you need to leave in a hurry, have them packed up and ready to go before the hurricane hits.
Good luck!!!
