Family Emergency Preparedness

As the USA hurricane season wounds down some people are sighing with relief especially those on the Gulf Coast and Florida. Yes, we seemed to have dodged a bullet this year even though we still have until November 30th before the hurricane season officially ends.

So we are seeing at US Prepared people say: Well I guess that emergency preparedness is not the most important item on my radar for the rest of 2006.

WRONG!

This is the time that you need to prepare your family for 2007!

So what can you do?

First visit our site at http://www.usprepared.com and get your FR** Emergency Preparedness Guide and make sure to sit down with the family and read through it. After you have read through it then begin to take ACTION now!

Make sure that you have at least a week but preferably more of the items suggested on hand for every member of the family. And remember your pets are important for emergency preparedness!

We are strongly encouraging every family to purchase one particular item for Christmas this year - a family tent!

Why a family tent? Family tents usually have two or three room allowing for privacy.

Remember those poor souls that had driven away from Hurricane Katrina and Rita last year only to find the motels already booked to capacity and the stuffy concrete floors of the shelters packed like sardines?

Would it not be a heck of a lot more comfortable to find a state park or national park where you could set up your family tent without the added stress of hundreds of people crammed together?

We are going to be starting a national campaign at US Prepared to enlighten every legislator, governor, emergency preparedness official and media member about how we need to take advantage of our state and national parks during emergencies. We have learned that during Katrina state parks in Arkansas were utilized. That is a step in the right direction. Most state parks that I have visited in Georgia have bathrooms, showers and even electric outlets.

If you want to follow my venture then go to http://www.usprepared.com beginning around the first of November 2006 and you will see a video blog of my staying at a park for an extended period of time. You will see me in both a family tent and also an emergency preparedness tent that can be utilized for a larger amount of people.

We are strongly urging people to tell their friends and most importantly their elected officials about this project to better utilize our state and national parks for emergencies.

Hugh Simpson is a former investigative reporter for Post Newsweek TV and author of A Family Survival Manual for Y2K & Beyond featured on CNN, Fox News, Coast to Coast AM, etc. Currently he is the co-founder of US Prepared, an emergency preparedness consulting firm and a TV producer. You can get his FR** Emergency Preparedness Guide at http://www.usprepared.com. Denise Blog78856
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