080: Emergency Evacuation, Evacuation Procedures and Disaster Emergency Action Plan

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Which Path Will You Choose To Take?

• This entire episode was just a tiny bit of my one year preparedness system.
  • How To Be A Prepper: One Year Emergency Preparedness System
• When there is a disaster you will have to decide:
  • to bug-in for security
  • or to bug-out to get away from danger
  • We must prepare for both bugging in and out
    • discussing the latter
• You will bug in when:
  • disaster requires you to stay home (such as a food shortage or sickness)
  • or at home the disaster will do you no harm (loss of job)
• You will bug out when:
  • You have a disaster that is immediately hazardous to life and health (forest fire spreading, nuclear disaster that hasn’t made it to you yet)
  • A disaster is regional and you have an evacuation location out of the region (such as a storm that has destroyed the area)
• When stress is high, will you know what to do, what to grab, or the best way to get to your BOL?
  • we use emergency action plans
• what is an emergency action plan?
  • A document with important information and documentation to help you and others to follow well thought out steps to ensure success when executing a bug-out plan.
• Why should you have an Emergency Action Plan or Emergency Evacuation Procedure?
  • Family members stressed can follow the easy written steps
    • stress clouds the mind
  • keep your spouse on track and clear their head
  • help you with your own memory
  • Irresponsible children may surprise you in a bad situation if they have a good plan
  • they will help you figure out what you are weakest at, and where attention is due
• What should be in an Emergency Action Plan or Emergency Evacuation Procedure?
  • List of likely disasters
    • Jobloss
    • House fire or damage
    • Tornados
    • Hurricanes
    • Snow and Ice Storms
    • Earthquakes
    • Floods
    • Volcanic Eruption
    • Meteor Impact
    • Economic Collapse or Viral Outbreak
      • What is most likely?
      • Where will it come from?
      • Will you stay home or evacuate?
      • Rank them and work on most likely first
  • List of important contacts
    • Family
      • Immediate, Extended
    • Professional Contacts
      • Banker, Brokers, Investment Firms, Employers
    • Emergency Services
      • Police, Fire Dept
    • Each Contact should include:
      • Phone numbers, addresses, social media info, email addresses
  • The roles for each family member
    • Father- Keep everyone together, security
    • Mother- Packing list, important docs, call family members
    • Teenagers- grab their own bag and important items
      • gather pet supplies, social media updates if needed
    • Small Children- Grab their bags and toys, grab pets
    • The roles you give each person depends on your own comfort level
  • Financial Information
    • Bank Accounts
      • Acc Number, routing number, type of account
    • Loan Information
      • account mgr contact, type of account
    • Invesment Accounts
      • Firm, Contact at the firm, broker contact
    • Insurance Accounts
      • account mgr contact, account number
    • Property Titles
      • Home, auto, boats
    • Copy of your car registrations
    • All Financial contacts should have
      • Phone, Address, Email
  • Copy of your favorite survival books
  • Plan for your Pets
    • Their own bags
    • Food: Cheap dried dogfood
    • Where in vehicles, which vehicles will they ride
    • will you have to take them anywhere?
  • Evacuation Routes
    • As easy as 3-3-3
      • 3 destinations
      • 3 Routes for each destination
      • 3 Rally points or rest stops for each route
    • Will everyone know what rest stop b on route 3 is?
    • What if you arent at home, others need to be able to look in EAP and determine what to do or where to go
  • Code phrases for danger
  • Packing Lists
    • IHLH (Immediate Hazard to Life or Health)
      • BOBs
      • Premade Bags
      • Important Documentation
      • Anything quick and easy to grab that will do the most good
    • An Hour or Two
      • Add items to your list based on your needs
    • A day to pack
      • Based on needs again
  • Fireproof Safe
    • central place to grab important docs in a hurry
    • safe place for your documents as well
    • Keep things like
      • detailed financial map or information
      • IDs
      • other important documentation
    • Keep your most important and most detailed Disaster Plan in the safe
• How many copies of your Emergency Disaster Action Plan or Emergency Evacuation Procedure should you have?

• Several physical copies
  • Each Vehicle
  • Each bugout bag
  • A copy in your home for each family member
  • Your most detailed and important copy in a fireproof/waterproof safe
  • Copy to your most trusted family members (not living with you)
    • they may not listen to you until it is too late
    • this can be your contribution to help them
    • they will now be able to contact you and meet up with you for help
• Many digital copies
  • One on every single computer in the home, including laptops
  • One on each smartphone or tablet
    • portable, low energy consumption, easy to keep charged
  • Email it to yourself using web-based email so it is stored online
  • You could keep a copy “on the cloud”
  • purchase drive space from a long term storage host, like Amazon Glacier
    • a penny per GB per month
    • slow and free to pull a GB
    • 12 cents per GB up to 10 TB (120 dollars for a TB, or 1000 GB)

• Remember that this entire episode was just a tiny bit of my one year preparedness system.
  • I have my How To Be A Prepper: One Year Emergency Preparedness System finished and ready to sell, but it has taken me a little while to set up the best online store or ecommerce for it.