Emergency supplies and drills

Hi Artemis, I have a provisions cupboard with dried milk and eggpowder etc for if we are ever unable to leave the house but as in UK not to much diverse weather tend not to have a major emergency plan in place but all my friends and family know to try to make it to me. Huggles. Ellie :D

I don't have to worry about hurricanes or floodng here in California. We have fires and earthquakes. I need to get together an earthquake kit and to figure out an eacape route for fires. I have also thought about taking a first aide class since I am a professor and I am constantly around people who might need help in the event of a disaster.

It's just me....but usually I have enough stuff to last several weeks on hand....and I do keep a battery operated radio on hand....and candles etc....we are more concerned about big snow storms up here....occasionally we do get a tornado but my kids live in a neighboring town and if something happened I could go stay with them.

I am in the UK, and generally we don't have those types of problems. Yes we do have gas and electric problems, or even water problems, but because it is so rare that these problems arise I don't really have supplies in case of... maybe I should. I have candles if the electric goes out which does happen occasionally, but not often. I also have torches. If my gas goes wrong, and therefore have no heating, I have a halogen fire which is free standing and does give off a lot of heat. The only other thing that I would say I do, is in the really bad winter months (generally January and Feb, I do tend to stock up on freezer food, and tins etc, just in case we get snowed in, which did happen this year to me. I was stuck indoors for a week, and could not get out at all, due to the snow, but thankfully had food and drink to get by. I guess a lot of us take things for granted and tend to forget that things can go wrong, perhaps it would be a good thing to become a little more prepared.