It is often said that everyone should have a 72-hour emergency kit. "Why 72 hours?" you might ask. The general rule is that it takes about 72 hours, or three days, for services to begin to be restored. If services such as water, gas, electricity and cable TV are missing from your life for more than a day, how excited will you be?
Are you willing to leave your children without food and clean water for that long? Do you think that the government will be there to save the day when it happens? After hurricane Katrina, probably not. If many of the people who sat at the Super Dome for three days had possessed a 72-hour kit, their experience would have been vastly different. I believe that two main factors kept them from being prepared, namely ignorance and apathy.
I hope to help provide information to remedy the first problem, but the only person who can resolve the last is yourself. Tomorrow I will go through some of the things I have learned in creating 72-hour kits for my family. Note that it is a plural noun, not singular.
- Mark
Value is based on perception.
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