All posts tagged emergency prepardness

Rock Salt, Snow Blowers, Generators and Wise Emergency Food Storage

Wise Food StorageWe have been getting in more of the Wise Emergency Food Storage products and have recently become a direct distributor for the product line.  This is one of those products, just like rock salt, that most people don’t think about until they need it.   You wake up after the first ice storm or snow storm, grab your shovel, and find a half a bag of solid rock salt that you have to break up and spread around your driveway.   If another storm comes, you better be prepared because products like this have a tendency to disappear from shelves because so many people don’t want to store much of it ahead of time.  Some rock salt distributors sit on their inventory for years without any major snow storms, sometimes close to a decade, but then those bad winters hit and its all gone.   Food storage should be in the same category and since technological advances have been made, quality has improved.    If you couldn’t go to the store to buy food for 2 weeks, how long is your present food situation going to last and what would the quality of your diet be?

I am expecting that if there are many more of these Ebola outbreaks, there is going to be panic buying of products  like this.  Sure some of these buckets look expensive, but if you realize that if you went to a restaurant and could eat there for a month and it cost you $180 or $250 would that not be a great deal?  You can make Wise Food Storage products with hot or cold water  and there is a very diverse food variety, from Milk products, fruits, vegetables and meats.   Another thing to think about when shopping for these products are the manufacturing dates.  There are vendors out there that sometimes get stuck with inventory and it sits in their warehouses for years and may have been manufactured 3-4 years ago but says lasts for 25yrs.

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Flashlights, cell phones and knives

I remember that is now only about 12yrs since the era of my life when I walked around without a cell phone on me.   I remember when people carried pagers and had to walk away from a Thanskgiving dinner to answer an emergency.   Much has changed in recent years in communications, but not much has changed as far as self defense and emergency preparedness.   I’m still looking for the right size flashlight that I can carry 7 days a week, but I’m either bothered by the size of the ones that I do like to use or the smaller ones are too expensive and I’m afraid I’m just going to loose one of the darn things.

The cell  phone is probable now your #1 tool, but flashlights and knives are extremely useful in emergencies.   If you or someone in the road is trapped in a vehicle, a small tactical knives could mean saving a life and trying to tear a seat belt is impossible with bare hands.   I have carried gas can and fixa flat in my car because I’ve done so many road trips where stupid nail would have meant waiting 4hrs for a tow truck or walking 10 miles to a gas station.   Flashlights are also something that should aways be in a car because there is nothing worse than a dead battery or dangerous environment without being able to see your surroundings or flag someone down.

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