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I hope no one who reads this will be surprised to learn that our state,
nation and world is experiencing extremely abnormal events. We have wars
and rumors of wars, massive earthquakes all over the globe. An alarming
number of fires burning all over, people are dying from the heat in
Europe and even in the US, we're experiencing tornadoes, exceptionally
high inflation and even shortages of some critical food and medical
items. Because of these crises, it is more important than ever for us to
have our own homes in order.
Due to the large number of fires in our state, I'm attaching a basic bug
out list that you can use to get started with your own list. Hopefully
this list will remind you of items that you would be devastated to lose
in a fire. The point of having a list is to give you some order during a
crisis so you will grab what is most important to you and your family,
plus showing you where you put it. You can print off your lists and post
them in your closet so you can grab the lists and start collecting your
goods.
A quick story to help you if you find yourself in an emergency evacuation:
A lady spoke at our emergency preparedness fair, telling us about her
experience with a wildfire in Colorado. Their home backed up to a
forest, her husband was on a campout with the scouts, she was home with
her teenage daughter and son. They were notified that a forest fire was
raging behind them, they should grab a few things and be gone in five
minutes. The lady said she and her daughter went into the garage, found
their suitcases, went to their bedrooms, opened the suitcase, carefully
unbuttoned a blouse from a hanger, laid it on the bed and started to
carefully fold it so it would fit without wrinkling in the suitcase.
There was a sudden yelling from their front door - a man shouting they
needed to flee immediately! The fire was in their backyard so they
jumped into their truck and raced down the road away from the fire. The
woman said the house burned to the ground and they lost everything.
However, while she had been wasting time finding her suitcase and
carefully folding a blouse, her teenage son had run to the kitchen,
grabbed some garbage bags, ran to his room, flung open his closet,
grabbed all of the hanging clothes in one swoop and stuffed them into
his garbage bags. Then he opened his dresser drawers and dumped the
contents into garbage bags and even took an arm swipe across the top of
his dresser, sweeping his treasures into the bag he already had in his
hands. Then he raced to the truck and threw his bags into the back,
arriving their the same time as his mother and sister. They got nothing.
He got most of his stuff.
The lesson is to know what to take, where it is located, be efficient,
don't be a neat freak, just grab and go. Look at the lists I have
attached, modify them to your situation and needs, add the locations of
everything (anticipating that someone else might be helping you), and
update the list as you aquire items or move things around in your house.
I never want to be a fearmonger so this message is simply meant as a
wake up call for those who are not prepared for an emergency evacuation
that must happen within minutes, such as a fire.
Please make a family plan for how to handle a five minute evacuation
order. Now would be the best time to start.
Best to all of you.
Larry Madsen
Stake Preparedness Specialist
801-558-8988
lmadsen30@gmail.com
Are you prepared?
Are you prepared?
Greetings,
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My hope is that when the power goes out, we all have a plan.
Best to you and your preparations.
Larry Madsen
Stake Preparedness Specialist
801-558-8988
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President Nelson, April 2019 GC, “Time is running out.” (speaking of spiritual preparedness)
It's so critical for us to be spiritually in tune. If we are, we will also want to be prepared in all things.
Temporal Preparation
Financial - Can one financial setback wipe you out? We had a family in our ward with one car. It broke down, they didn’t have $750 to fix it, he lost his job. Home went into foreclosure. How was this resolved?
Recommendation: Have enough money set aside to cover at least three months of bills. Note that this will be less than three months of what you normally spend. Don’t stop at three months, because you really want to be able to cover your expenses forsix months or longer.
What to save for:
• Mortgage
• Car payment
• Utilities
• Cell phone service
• Medical emergency
• Vehicle emergency
What you don’t need to include:
• Taxes
• Tithing
• Putting $$ into savings
• Buying new clothing
• Food shopping
• Household cleaning & sanitation products
• Vacations
• Credit Card debt
• Subscriptions for cable channels/streaming services, car wash, etc.
P.A.C.E.
Our US Special Forces were trained to be prepared in four levels: Primary, Alternate, Contingency and Emergency(PACE). Primary is what we would normally use, Alternate is a great back-up for us when the Primary is not available, Contingency is a secondary back-up plan and Emergency is when P, A and C are not available. To explain this, here are some examples:
Transportation
Primary – car or truck
Alternate – motorbike, ATV, side-by-side, etc.
Contingency – bicycle, skateboard, roller skates, other wheels
Emergency – foot (need good shoes & boots for all weather conditions in our area)
Food
P – grocery store
A – pantry and storage room
C – garden
E – hunting and fishing
Weaponry for Self Defense (military thinking)
P – rife for long range defense
A – side arm for closer range
C – shotgun for really close
E – knife for hand-to-hand
Fire Starting
P – propane/butane torch or lighter
A – matches
C – flint and steel
E – rubbing sticks together
This got me thinking about the various items on our personal prep lists and how we could apply PACE to them; items such as shelter, cooking, lighting, water, heating, medical, sanitation (including toilets), etc. I’m going to pick a few and run them through the PACE model. Since this is simply my take on this, and not the military, feel free to send me your suggestions to improve the list.
Shelter
P – home
A – trailer, motorhome
C – tent*
E – tarp and rope
* In this example, a good tent could be the Alternate for a lot of people and the Emergency could be an ax/hatchet/saw for cutting off tree branches to form a lean-to.
Water
P – faucet inside our home
A – water barrels
C – water purification tools for water collected from streams, lakes, rain
E – boil water collected from ‘C’ when you don’t have purification tools. Before and after boiling, ‘filter’ the water through a dense piece of cloth to remove larger particles.
Cooking
P – home stove top and ovens
A – propane grills and stoves
C – wood burning stoves and solar ovens
E – cooking over an open fire
Lighting
P – electricity
A – batteries*
C – solar, propane
E – fire
* Some might suggest that A & C should be reversed or even put in the same category. That’s not an issue in my mind. The key is to have multiple levels of preparedness.
Feel free to continue this exercise with other preparedness categories.
Let’s run one category through the PACE model and see how it works:
Shelter
P – Keep your home in good working order and clean. Pay mortgage and insurance on time to keep it securely in your name.
A – Since most people can’t run out and purchase a motorhome, most people will be jumping straight to C, atent. For those that have a motorhome, keep the propane and water tanks full. Learn how to perform most repairs to keep it functioning.
C – Tent. If you don’t have a tent, study out various styles and sizes with the understanding that you would want space for sleeping as well as room for gear. In an emergency, the tent will give you immediate shelter from the elements, as well as privacy, if you need to evacuate your home.
E – Tarp or lean-to. Get 100 ft coils of both rope (1/2 in) and paracord. Tarps can be used for collecting water as well as for shelter. Choose a size and add it to your preps. Best if the tarp has eyelets. Having metal stakes would also help and could be used to help secure your tarp in windy weather. Another idea is to build a lean-to from salvaged building materials, branches and pine boughs.
Purchase a simple saw, ax or hatchet if you don’t already have them. I would suggest at least a branch saw and a hatchet. Keep the hatchet sharpened, which means you will want to have a sharpening tool (not very expensive).
As you can see, with regards to Shelter, everyone can work towards being PACE prepared in short order. Let’s do it!
Water Barrels
Water Barrels
This is the company I used for our last group buy of water barrels. Since a few have reached out looking for a good place to get water barrels, I'm forwarding this email that came in today.
Larry Madsen
Stake Preparedness Specialist
lmadsen@xilec.com
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