Comments on: Spring Fever: 72 Hour Kits https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/ momma gets stuff done Sat, 01 Nov 2014 05:35:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: LaVonne @ Long Wait https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1940 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:26:05 +0000 http://whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1940 I really need to put one of these kits together. Thanks for sharing this wealth of knowledge with us at WFMW. I appreciate all the hard work it took to put into the post.

Blessings!

]]> By: Lowri https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1906 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:06:08 +0000 http://whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1906 Great post. I just put ours together (we are in New Zealand) after the earthquakes we have had here too! Some different ideas here though. Thanks for sharing.
Lowri
http://papervinenz.blogspot.com

]]> By: Allison {A Glimpse Inside} https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1856 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:13:21 +0000 http://whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1856 very good idea! My family wouldn’t be prepared if something happened to us. Thanks for the tips and thanks for linking up!

]]> By: The Prudent Homemaker https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1843 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:39:12 +0000 http://whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1843 We are updating our kits in the next couple of weeks, so I appreciated the review list of items. We need to change out clothing sizes and food, especially!

Batteries don’t last a long time and can get pricy, so what we have insead are flashlights that don’t need batteries; they are LED flashlights that work after you shake them for a couple of minutes. This eliminates weight and space in your kits. You can also purchase wind-up radios that do not need batteries.

Wool blankets are ideal blankets since they are so warm and are also thin. Sleeping bags are another way to go, but you do need to get wam ones, or wool blankets would be warmer (and wool blankets with plastic tarps to sleep on and under can work as well).

I also have a small hairbrush in my kit, with hair elastics on the handle.

A 72-hour kit is a great way to have something to take with you if you needed to be evacuated from your home in a hurry (and might not be able to get back, especially if, as in Japan, there was nothing to come back to).

]]> By: The Saved Quarter https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1840 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:19:45 +0000 http://whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1840 I put together 72 hour kits last year and have felt a great sense of relief to know that it’s there. Ours is in a duffel bag near the front door, so we could grab and go if we had to.

I listed out my menu for it on my blog. I did it with healthy foods and within USDA sodium recs – not easy to do!
http://thesavedquarter.com/2010/09/72-hour-0menu-plan-emergency-preparedness/

]]> By: Nicolette @ Momnivore's Dilemma https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1742 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:37:27 +0000 http://whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1742 My husband and I were just discussing this in lieu of everything going on in Japan. Like one of your commenters said, having something like that in the car in crucial as well…

Thanks for linking up to Creative Juice Thursday.

]]> By: Jenna https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1727 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:22:43 +0000 http://whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1727 What a great post- We live in So Cal between two fault lines and with a new little one I am even more motivated to be ready.

Traveled over from I heart Naptime Sundae Scoop from copycatcorner.blogspot.com

]]> By: Percy The Black Cat https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1726 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:36:08 +0000 http://whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1726 ARG silly blogger! I just wrote up a post and in deleted it on me. >:(

Anyhow, my name is cathie and I’ve studied and worked in Emergency Management in some form or another for a few years now.

I have a few suggestions, about being prepared. Mostly do it now, while it’s on your mind. Review your kits when the time changes, or when you change the batteries in your smoke detectors.

Some links that will help you with being organized and give you ideas. Take a look at them all, they are all great, and present the material in different ways so it’s not too overwhelming.

NYC’s office or emergency management. Lots of great pamphlets and tips, forms, on various ways of being prepared and for different emergencies.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/get_prepared/ready.shtml

US Gov’t preparedness site
http://www.ready.gov/

Canadian Gov’t preparedness site
http://www.getprepared.gc.ca/index-eng.aspx

If I can help anyone with anything let me know
frothie51 (AT) gmail.com

]]> By: Lee Ann https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1725 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:29:35 +0000 http://whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1725 Thank you for posting this information. My husband and I have been talking about this lately. God bless.

]]> By: Vivienne @ the V Spot https://www.whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1723 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:11:08 +0000 http://whilehewasnapping.com/2011/03/spring-fever-72-hour-kits/#comment-1723 Very good and very timely.
Something else to think about is “What do I do if there’s an emergency and I’m in my car or at the office…?
We have ER supplies/food & water (and a pair of athletic shoes & socks for me) in the car, and Hubs has an ER backpack at his office.

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