The Emergency Email & Wireless Network

Their mission:

"Provide notification to citizens of local, regional, national and international emergencies utilizing the Internet and electronic mail (email) in a secure and expedient manner"

http://www.emergencyemail.org

Awesome website, I have been using their site for over a year now. I get weather alerts sent to my cell phone and email.

How do you start to get prepared?

PART 1

I have heard that question so much. The first thing you need to do is one that nearly no one does and is the most important to prepping ... is to take inventory of what you have in your home. Inventory will tell what you have, how much you have and will tell you what you don't need to buy. Then you organize it.
By doing an inventory first, you can record all serial numbers, take pictures of items and create a data base for your home. This data base will help when you put a claim into the insurance company if you lose items in a disaster that destroys your home. You keep copies at different locations. Inventory will tell you how much food you have on hand and what is out of date. You may find out that you already have a week or two food supply already. It will tell you what you eat and don't eat. Also an inventory will allow you to see what items in the house you don't use. Take the item that you don't use and have a garage sale. Money from the garage sale put into an account for preps to be used on items you may need. When you get rid of the items you don't need, you create more storage space. When you inventory you will need to organize at the same time. Organized home will make life easier and when a disaster does hit, you know where things are.
Do one room at a time. Try not to inventory everything in one day or weekend. Use this time to clean and make your home safer. Think about the items you have and ask the questions "How can I use this in a survival situation?", "Have I used this in the last year?", "How important is this to me?" or "Can I do without this?". It may take you  a couple weeks or a month or more to inventory and organize. But do it first as your preps and it will save you lots of money and time in the future.

Todays Survival Show

A new podcast on survival and prepping started back in July of 2009. Today’s Survival Show is founded by Bob Mayne and Randy Croft. They have over forty episodes now and continue to post one or two podcasts a week. Get a chance and listen to some of the episodes.

Here is some of the categories he has covered so far:

• Bartering skills (3)
• Emergency Bags (1)
• Emergency Equipment (6)
• Energy Independence (1)
• Evacuation (4)
• Family (6)
• Finances (11)
• Food Storage (1)
• Goals (3)
• Health and Fitness (1)
• Home Security (1)
• Humor (1)
• Independence (27)
• Interviews (1)
• Jobs (1)
• Learning survival (12)
• Low cost preparations (1)
• Mindset (29)
• Negotiation (1)
• Podcasts (32)
• Retirement (1)
• Schools (1)
• Self Defense (11)
• Survival Technology (2)
• Terrorism (1)
• Threat assessment (2)
• Water storage (1)
• Wealth (1)

Todays Survival

Preparedness books to get you started.

You just found out about prepping, you may have heard someone talking of storing food, or just worried about losing your job and how to prepare for it if it does happen. Well where do you get started? Lots of websites out there, but get ready for information overload. Tons of books out there... but where do you start? Here is three books I recommend that can get you started without spending a lot of money. You don't need to go broke buying ton of equipment and food. Most likely you have a lot of thing in your home already.

The first book I highly recommend, "Shoestring Survivalist: How to Prepare for Bad Times on a Budget" by Andy James. This book is just awesome and I wish I had this book years ago. Bob Mayne on Today’s Survival Show started covering the book on around episode 33.

The second book I highly recommend, "Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook", 11th edition by James Talmage Stevens. This book is a workbook to help you get started prepping. Mainly with your food preps.Has lots of links to prepping sites as well as government sites.

The third book I recommend is "Camping & Wilderness Survival", 2nd edition by Paul Tawrell. This book is more for the outdoors but has so much info for the prep per to use. If you are unable to sleep in your house after a disaster, guess what your camping. This book teaches you a lot of primitive ways of starting a fire, cooking, basic survival, and lots of info that you can use.

So check these books out at your library or purchase them for you own personal library. You be getting a lot of information to get you started on prepping.

Starting to use my blog.

Well I decided to use my blog for learning about prepping. I actually have prepped for personal local disasters most on my life. Just in the last couple of years I decided to go further into prepping. So I hope to use this blog as a learning tool and to help others at the same time.